Terms related to AI · 3.1.8
cognitive computing
a class of AI systems built to let people and machines interact in a more natural way
What this term settles
This is the sense the standard gives cognitive computing. A firm is free to use another sense, but then the difference belongs in its own glossary rather than in an assumed shared language.
Who it binds
Nothing here creates an obligation by itself. The obligation arrives when the firm writes cognitive computing into a control, a specification or a purchase order.
What to do in your practice
Put cognitive computing in the controlled vocabulary with its citation, an owner and a review date. Then test the inventory and the policy against the entry and record every place the firm uses a different word for the same thing.
Evidence an auditor or regulator asks for
- A controlled vocabulary entry for cognitive computing with the citation 3.1.8, an owner and a review date.An auditor can check that the term is controlled rather than assumed.
- An AI system inventory field that records the entry for each system, with its owner.Shows cognitive computing in use in the artefact the firm relies on, not only in a glossary.
- A policy or procedure sentence that uses the entry in this sense.The policy borrows the word but not the boundary, so a supplier system and an in-house model are treated as the same kind of thing.
Common gaps this page catches
- cognitive computing is used in the AI vocabulary a policy reaches for first without a written definition, so two teams can mean different things.
- The vocabulary is reviewed when someone remembers, not on a cadence, so entries drift from the artefacts they describe.
What to prepare before the amendment lands
Brief the owners who use cognitive computing most often, then ask each to return one artefact that shows the entry in use. File the artefacts against the register row.
How to test it here
Take one live artefact rather than a template, find the sentence or field where cognitive computing is used, and put this page beside it. Record the answer, the artefact and the date, because that record is the evidence and a glossary entry on its own is only an intention.
What this page does not claim
The page does not reproduce the standard, certify the firm or predict the wording the amendment will use; it states cognitive computing at the claim level "definition" and stops where the public record stops.
Common questions
- What does cognitive computing mean in ISO 22989?
- a class of AI systems built to let people and machines interact in a more natural way
- What evidence should we keep for 3.1.8?
- A controlled vocabulary entry for cognitive computing with the citation 3.1.8, an owner and a review date. An AI system inventory field that records the entry for each system, with its owner.
- Is cognitive computing a requirement?
- No: cognitive computing is a definition or clause of a terminology standard, and it becomes binding only when a firm writes it into a policy, a contract or a procedure, or when another standard incorporates it.
Related units
Source. ISO/IEC 22989:2022, Clause 3.1.8, Terms and definitions. Open the ISO public entry. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/en/#iso:std:iso-iec:22989:ed-1:v1:en
ISO catalogue record 88145, the amendment status, stage and dates. Catalogue record 74296, the base standard.
Claim level: definition. The definition is in the public preview. This page states it in our own words and does not reproduce the text.
Last updated: 2026-10-21 · Markdown version · Check your vocabulary