Leadership Conference Letter to National Institute of Standards and Technology on the Proposed Zero Draft Outline for a Standard on AI

September 12, 2025

Submitted electronically to [email protected]

RE: Request for Comment on the Proposed Zero Draft Outline for a Standard on AI
Testing, Evaluation, Verification, and Validation

On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 240 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States, and its Center for Civil Rights and Technology, we appreciate the opportunity to provide comment on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Outline: Proposed Zero Draft for a Standard on AI Testing, Evaluation, Verification, and Validation (TEVV).1

A copy of the full letter is available here.