OECD adopts the first intergovernmental AI Principles
What changed?
The OECD Council adopted the Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence, setting five principles for trustworthy AI and five recommendations to governments; the G20 endorsed principles drawn from it in June 2019.
What does it mean in practice?
Baseline reference for national AI policies and later laws; organisations can map governance to its five principles.
Official source
OECD/LEGAL/0449OECD · 22 May 2019
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AIPolicyTracker (2026). “OECD adopts the first intergovernmental AI Principles”. https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2019-05-22-oecd-ai-principles (accessed 27 September 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.
Cite the official text alongside it: OECD/LEGAL/0449, OECD, https://legalinstruments.oecd.org/en/instruments/OECD-LEGAL-0449.
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