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OECD revises its AI Principles and the definition of an AI system

Concerns OECD AI Principles (Recommendation on AI)

Verified against the official source 26 Sep 2026 · reviewed by Bhaskar Bhatt (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review or legal advice)
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In brief

OECD revises its AI Principles and the definition of an AI system. Recorded on 3 May 2024. It concerns OECD AI Principles (Recommendation on AI). 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.

Date
3 May 2024
Jurisdiction
International organisations (OECD, UNESCO, UN, G7, ISO)
Instrument
OECD AI Principles (Recommendation on AI)
Impact
Routine
Status afterwards
Adopted
Official source
OECD

What changed?

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.

What does it mean in practice?

The revised definition is the reference for scoping AI systems across jurisdictions.

Official source

OECD/LEGAL/0449OECD · 3 May 2024

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AIPolicyTracker (2026). “OECD revises its AI Principles and the definition of an AI system” [AIPT-CHG-0061, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0061 (accessed 12 November 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Cite the official text alongside it: OECD/LEGAL/0449, OECD, https://legalinstruments.oecd.org/en/instruments/OECD-LEGAL-0449.

BibTeX 
@misc{aipolicytracker2026_oecdrevisesitsaiprincipl,
  author       = {{AIPolicyTracker}},
  title        = {{OECD revises its AI Principles and the definition of an AI system}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2024-05-03-oecd-ai-principles-revised}},
  url          = {https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2024-05-03-oecd-ai-principles-revised},
  urldate      = {2026-11-12},
  note         = {Data licensed CC BY 4.0. Accessed 12 November 2026}
}

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