The OECD Council updated the Recommendation to reflect general-purpose and generative AI, misinformation and environmental sustainability, and adopted a revised definition of an AI system used by the EU AI Act and other laws.
The revised definition is the reference for scoping AI systems across jurisdictions.
OECD/LEGAL/0449OECD · 3 May 2024
AIPolicyTracker (2026). “OECD revises its AI Principles and the definition of an AI system”. https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2024-05-03-oecd-ai-principles-revised (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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