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Adopt the OECD AI-system definition and trustworthy-AI principles
Use the OECD Recommendation’s AI-system definition and principles as a shared baseline for domestic policy and legislative drafting.
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Events and deadlines- 2024-05-03OECD revises the AI Recommendation
The OECD Council meeting at Ministerial level revised the Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence.
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OECD Recommendation defines an AI system for adherents
The revised Recommendation states a shared definition of an AI system used across many national frameworks.
AI system: An AI system is a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Different AI systems vary in their levels of autonomy and adaptiveness after deployment.OECD Legal Instruments · OECD/LEGAL/0449 · Section I definition of AI system
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OECD Council revised the AI Recommendation on 3 May 2024
The legal-instrument text records the May 2024 ministerial revision addressing generative AI and related developments.
Recommendation was revised by the OECD Council meeting at Ministerial level on 3 May 2024 to reflect technological and policy developments, including with respect to generative AI, and to further facilitate its implementation.OECD Legal Instruments · OECD/LEGAL/0449 · introductory history