Board of Directors
Responsible for mission, direction, compliance, major policies, financial oversight, committee authorization, and final governance decisions.
AAB governance
Public-interest governance for AI education evidence and standards.
AAB is designed as a nonprofit, public-interest standards and evidence body. Its governance model separates public evidence work, professional standards review, operational execution, advisory support, and global collaboration.
Mission and position
AAB's mission is to establish and advance a public evidence system for AI literacy and to progressively develop globally applicable AI education evaluation frameworks, draft standards, and implementation reference systems. The organization is positioned as public-trust infrastructure for standards research, evidence evaluation, and transparent AI education governance.
Operating principles
The charter centers independence, public credibility, evidence priority, and explicit boundaries between registry inclusion, standards work, and commercial endorsement.
- Independence from commercial-interest entities.
- Academic neutrality across products, curricula, companies, and business models.
- Public-interest focus on transparency, educational quality, and social trust.
- Evidence priority through cases, pilots, comparative studies, and public records.
- Non-endorsement: registration or display does not automatically certify or endorse a program.
- Prudent governance with clear authority boundaries and conflict-of-interest disclosure.
Governance architecture
AAB uses a layered structure: governance, professional review, execution, strategic support, and global coordination. Each layer has a defined role and authority boundary.
Standards Council
Organizes standards research, reviews draft frameworks, manages public consultation and version control, and provides professional recommendations to the Board.
Advisory Board
Provides academic credibility, policy perspective, public-impact advice, international visibility, and external connections without statutory governance voting authority.
Executive Committee
Advances approved work plans, coordinates committees, manages case and pilot registration workflows, supports communications, and escalates major risks to the Board.
Strategic Committee
Supports long-term strategy, policy insight, ecosystem coordination, thought leadership, visibility, and non-binding resource connection.
Volunteer, research, and regional network
Research fellows, contributors, ambassadors, technical volunteers, and regional liaisons support evidence discovery, documentation, local feedback, and public-knowledge building.
Core functions under governance
The governance model exists to protect the integrity of AAB's standards, registry, research, and public-affairs work.
Standards-system development
AAB develops and reviews AI literacy frameworks, K-12 AI education references, higher education and workforce AI literacy frameworks, physical AI and robotics education references, and safety, ethics, governance, and evidence requirements.
Evidence and evaluation infrastructure
AAB maintains case and pilot registry systems, uses the Evidence Maturity Index to describe evidence maturity, and supports comparative synthesis across contexts.
Academic and quality control
AAB uses structured review, expert consultation, transparency requirements, documentation of limitations, and risk notices for exaggerated claims or insufficient evidence.
Policy and public affairs
AAB may provide non-commercial policy-reference opinions, participate in international standards dialogue, and publish white papers, policy briefs, and public research reports.
Authority boundaries
The Board of Directors retains statutory governance authority. The Standards Council develops professional recommendations but does not replace the Board. Advisory, strategic, volunteer, research, and regional roles support the mission without creating automatic authority to represent AAB, certify programs, or make final standards decisions.
Registry inclusion, recordkeeping, display, or evaluation by AAB does not automatically constitute commercial endorsement. AAB does not directly conduct enrollment, training sales, franchise recruitment, traffic monetization, or related commercial conversion activities in its nonprofit name.