Compliance As Code

With the advent of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and JSON-LD, technology allows us to standardize, harmonize, and ubiquitize compliance require-ments and our responses to them.

• Laws, regulations, and standards are written on computers. Why shouldn’t they con-tain machine-readable information?
• With the advent of natural language processing and artificial intelligence, why does the interpretation of these documents have to be done by nameless people in a back room that want no credit and provide no proof of their work?
• The Internet of Things is pervasive, so why aren’t our policies, standards, and proce-dures written in a way so that those policies, standards, and procedures instruct both people and computers to behave the way we want?

Compliance as Code gives us the schemas, APIs, tools, and methodologies to simulta-neously read, interpret, and output compliance requirements in human and machine-readable formats.