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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.

Evidence explainer

What this establishes

The revision date marks an update to an existing 2019 Recommendation rather than a new binding treaty.

Why it matters: It distinguishes the original 2019 adoption from the current operative soft-law text.

Limits and context: The preamble date alone does not list every amended principle; the operative sections do.

Exact passage

OECD/LEGAL/0449 · introductory history

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.

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Policy questions

Multilateral standards

Should intergovernmental AI principles guide national rules?

Soft-law instruments such as the OECD AI Recommendation supply shared definitions that many jurisdictions then incorporate, revise or ignore.

Policy asks

adopted

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.

Policy vehicles

guidance · In force (soft law)

OECD Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence

Intergovernmental recommendation setting trustworthy-AI principles and a shared AI-system definition for adherents.

Policy events

2024-05-03 · publication

OECD revises the AI Recommendation

The OECD Council meeting at Ministerial level revised the Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence.