From this assessment window, the Human-AI Collaboration standard (GHA-11) asks something new of candidates at Level 2. It is no longer enough for a BIPS Practitioner portfolio to contain good work produced with automated assistance. Candidates must now evidence the verification habits that made the work good, and show that those habits are routine rather than occasional.
Why verification, and why Level 2
The Level 2 descriptor has always referred to integrating automated tools into daily work with verification habits, under review. In practice, the council found that assessors were inferring those habits from the quality of the output. That was not good enough. Sound output can come from luck, or from a reviewer quietly catching errors, and neither tells you how the candidate will work when the reviewer is not there.
We were certifying the result and assuming the habit. The revision asks candidates to show us the habit directly.
Level 2 is also where habits form. By BIPS Professional, candidates are expected to own outcomes produced with AI assistance and answer for their quality. The council concluded that the right moment to make verification explicit is before that ownership begins.
What counts as evidence
The portfolio now includes a dedicated verification section. Assessors will look for:
- Worked examples where you checked AI-assisted output against a source, a dataset or a subject expert, rather than against how plausible it read.
- At least one case where verification caught a material error, and what you did about it.
- A description of how your checking changes with the stakes of the task, and where you stop delegating altogether.
- A short statement from your reviewer confirming the habits are part of how you normally work.
At the evidence review stage, assessors will check that verification artefacts are genuine and contemporaneous, not reconstructed for the application. During the professional discussion, expect to be asked to talk through a specific check in detail: what you compared against, why, and what would have happened if you had skipped it.
What stays the same
The six capability areas are unchanged, and the four-stage route remains portfolio, evidence review, professional discussion, then award and register. Candidates who submitted before the change are assessed under the previous guidance. Existing BIPS-P holders do not need to reassess, though verification practice is a sensible focus for this year’s CPD.
The council will review the first cohort of portfolios under the new guidance at the end of the year and publish a short summary of what strong verification evidence looked like, so future candidates have clear examples to work from.