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Intergovernmental recommendation · 2024-05-03

OECD Recommendation of the Council on Artificial Intelligence (OECD/LEGAL/0449)

OECD Council Recommendation first adopted in 2019 and revised in May 2024, including the shared AI-system definition.

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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.