From documents to actionable knowledge: standards adoption in an AI-first world

In a world where everyone feels compelled to put AI on the first slide, Patrice Canonne opened his recent webinar with a wink, and then got very real, very fast: standards are changing, and the organizations behind them need to modernize how standards are authored, structured, and delivered if they want to stay relevant (and useful).  “The world is changing. It’s changing fast.”  Patrice’s core argument is practical: AI won’t save messy content. If standards remain locked in siloed Word files and PDF documents, AI initiatives will produce fragile results, because the content lacks consistent structure, reusable meaning, and an explicit model of context.