AIGP (Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional)
A dedicated AI governance certification issued by the IAPP, with its exam launched in 2024 and Body of Knowledge updated in 2025, covering AI systems, responsible-AI principles, applicable law, the AI life cycle, and risk management; it certifies governance knowledge, not engineering or legal practice, and must be actively maintained (see Certification maintenance) rather than held once and forever.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 4 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Certified AI Practitioner: Workplace Foundations.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A dedicated AI governance certification issued by the IAPP, with its exam launched in 2024 and Body of Knowledge updated in 2025, covering AI systems, responsible-AI principles, applicable law, the AI life cycle, and risk management; it certifies governance knowledge, not engineering or legal practice, and must be actively maintained (see Certification maintenance) rather than held once and forever.
A credential offered by the IAPP that tests knowledge of AI governance. This program assumes mastery of that knowledge and then makes the learner do the work, so a graduate can out-operate an exam-holder in a real room. The program claims coverage of the body of knowledge, not affiliation with the credential.
A professional certification for AI governance offered by an industry body, oriented around a body-of-knowledge exam. This program is designed so that a graduate covers what such an exam tests and, beyond that, has done the work and can open a dossier to prove it. The program claims coverage, not affiliation.
The IAPP credential that tests knowledge of the AI governance field. This program covers the AIGP body of knowledge and then goes past it by requiring the graduate to apply and defend the knowledge; no affiliation with IAPP is claimed. (see Topic 13.4)
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- Career Pathways to GAGE Governance Certifications · AI in the Workplace and Team Leadership, Certified AI Practitioner: Workplace Foundations
- Why decisions, not information, will make you the expert · Taking Command, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- Your command tools: the Briefcase, the professor, the dossier you will build · Taking Command, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- The viva: defending your command live against the examiner · The Capstone: The Board Audit and Viva, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where AIGP (Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional) starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Designs role-based AI training that measures skill, not attendance, with approved-use guidance, office hours and communities of practice.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Explains training, tokens, context windows, embeddings, retrieval and fine-tuning well enough to ask an engineer a precise question and spot weak evidence.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Reads and applies content provenance infrastructure: C2PA content credentials, watermarking, machine readable AI labels, and the transparency duties that now require them.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- Chief AI Officerneeds working knowledge
- AI Adoption and Enablement Leadneeds it at depth
- Chief Technology Officer, AI engineering editionneeds it at depth
- AI Security Architectneeds it at depth · 8 open postings this week
- Responsible AI Leadneeds working knowledge · 7 open postings this week
- AI Evaluation Specialistneeds it at depth · 6 open postings this week
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: EU AI Act Article 4; DOL AI Literacy Framework; EU AI Act Article 50; C2PA Content Credentials.
One interview question about it
Design AI literacy training for a workforce of mixed skill. Who learns what, and how do you know it worked?
Asked of candidates for ai literacy training and enablement design. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- Human resources and people operations carries it as a claim to back up: Training design and delivery are part of the function.
- Operations, claims, customer service and administration carries it as a claim to back up: Onboarding and job aids are training design.
- Teachers, trainers and instructional designers carries it as work you can show: Lesson plans, assessments and curricula are your artifacts.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.