About the RUAI Standard

The standard is published by Founderz AI, S.L., the company behind Founderz, one of Europe’s reference AI schools. It is developed by Founderz in collaboration with Microsoft. Founderz is a Microsoft Worldwide Training Partner and has trained more than 700,000 learners and professionals. The recommendations in the standard are Founderz’s own.

Cátedra ERIA is the Chair on Employability and Responsibility in AI at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). The university set it up with Founderz and Microsoft in 2024. Pau Garcia-Milà, co-founder of Founderz, directs it with Melchor Gómez, a professor at UAM.

The chair has two aims: to help young people train and find work in AI, and to help companies and institutions use AI responsibly. Its work covers research on responsible AI in leading Spanish companies, open tools and frameworks for people and organizations, events that share good practice, and AI training for young people, professionals and companies. This toolkit is one of its main areas of study and development.

Every factual statement links to a source, and we prefer primary ones: the law itself, regulators, standards bodies, peer-reviewed research, court and tribunal decisions, and organizations’ own statements about their own actions. For each source we record what it establishes and its limits. When we rely on a press report, we say so. The principles, practices and prompt examples are our recommendations, and we present them that way. See every source.

The standard was drafted with the help of AI assistants working from Founderz’s single source of truth, following its own principles: every fact was checked against its source, and people at Founderz decide what is published.

Responsible use of AI keeps changing, and the standard is published in editions. We correct errors as soon as we confirm them, and we recheck the sources behind the law and the evidence regularly. Tell us what you’d add, or where we got something wrong: responsibleuseofai@founderz.com.

The text of the standard is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may share and adapt it, including commercially, as long as you credit Founderz and link to the source. Names, logos and images aren’t covered by the license. Every principle and case study has its own address and a ready-made citation, and the standard as a whole can be cited as shown below.