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

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2024-05-03
- **Jurisdiction**: International organisations (OECD, UNESCO, UN, G7, ISO)
- **Instrument**: OECD Recommendation of the Council on Artificial Intelligence (OECD/LEGAL/0449), adopted 22 May 2019 and revised 3 May 2024
- **Impact level**: Routine
- **Status after the change**: Adopted

## 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 it means in practice

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

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2024-05-03-oecd-ai-principles-revised
- **Official source**: https://legalinstruments.oecd.org/en/instruments/OECD-LEGAL-0449
- **Source document**: OECD/LEGAL/0449
- **Published by**: OECD
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: AI Policy Tracker (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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