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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.

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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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guidance · In force (soft law)

OECD Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence

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

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2024-05-03
OECD 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

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OECD revises its AI Recommendation and shared system definition

On 3 May 2024 the OECD Council revised the Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence. The instrument remains soft law, but its AI-system definition is widely reused in domestic drafting.