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Currently recruiting: UL 3115 is a brand-new horizontal safety standard intended to help evaluate AI-based features in products alongside existing product-specific safety standards. This standard applies to products that use artificial intelligence, whether the entire product is AI‑driven or it simply includes one or more AI features. Examples include AI tools that detect equipment problems, help control HVAC systems, recognize objects in cameras, or power customer‑service chatbots. Products that have safety functions but do not use AI are not included. Overall, UL 3115 provides general requirements for AI‑based products and is meant to be used alongside existing safety standards for specific types of products. For more details, contact: [email protected].
Standards are everywhere if you look for them - from toys to household gadgets to AI to environmental technologies. Innovation is shaped and guided by standards. Thousands of people around the world - academics, consumers, manufacturers, to name a few - are working to build consensus in committees to ensure the products, processes and systems we rely on every day are safe, efficient and work well together.
Consumers play an important role on standards committees. You need not be a technical expert - your unique contribution will be your experience as a user. Your opinions will be taken seriously, although they may not prevail on every issue. You will see the consensus process in operation. And, you will have the opportunity to help develop a safety standard that will improve products and services, reducing risks.
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