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Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP)
For people who guide how organisations use AI responsibly: the laws that apply, ethical impact, risk management and governance frameworks.
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- Issuer
- IAPP
- Level
- Specialty
- Exam code
- AIGP
- Focus
- AI governance & ethics
- Who it is for
- Compliance, legal, privacy, risk and policy professionals, and leaders who oversee AI use.
- Before you start
- IAPP lists no formal prerequisites on its certification page.
What the exam covers
Listed as the issuer lists them, with weights where the issuer publishes them.
- AI systems and their use cases
- Impacts of AI and responsible AI principles
- Current and emerging laws that apply to AI
- AI governance frameworks
- The AI life cycle and risk management
- Putting responsible AI governance into practice
- Emerging concerns and debated issues in AI governance
Key terms to know
Words from this certification's topic areas, in plain English. Know these and the study material will be much easier to follow.
- AI governance
- The policies, roles and records that control how AI is built and used in an organisation.
- AI regulation
- Laws that set rules for AI, often by how risky the use is. The EU AI Act is one example.
- Risk assessment
- Listing what could go wrong, how likely and how serious it is, and what to do about it.
- Bias
- Unfair skew in a model's results, often caused by skewed training data.
- Explainability
- Being able to say why a model produced a result.
- Responsible AI
- Building and using AI fairly, safely, transparently and with accountability.
- Model card
- A short document describing what a model is for, how it was tested and where it falls short.
- Personal data (PII)
- Information that identifies a person and must be protected.
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- A voluntary US framework for finding and managing AI risks.
- ISO/IEC 42001
- An international standard for running an AI management system in an organisation.
- Human in the loop
- A person reviews or approves what the AI does before it takes effect.
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Details last checked Oct 7, 2026 against the issuer's own pages. Exams, versions and rules change. Confirm on the official page before you book. We are not affiliated with IAPP.