Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025): requirements, deadlines and compliance actions
Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI
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In brief
Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025) is a non-binding guidance of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), issued by ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting. Its current status is guidance. Voluntary; developers and deployers of generative AI across ASEAN.
- Jurisdiction
- ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
- Instrument type
- Guidance
- Status
- Guidance
- Legal force
- Non-binding (guidance, strategy or standard)
- Issuing body
- ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting
- Adopted
- 17 January 2025
- Official source
- Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI
- Verification
- Verified against the official source 26 Sep 2026
What is Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025)?
Endorsed in January 2025, the expanded guide addresses risks specific to generative AI (hallucination, deepfakes and misinformation, intellectual property, privacy, security, bias, embedded values) and proposes governance dimensions covering accountability, data, development and deployment, incident reporting, testing and assurance, security, content provenance, safety research and public-interest use, with policy recommendations for member states.
Who does it apply to?
Voluntary; developers and deployers of generative AI across ASEAN.
- Sectors
- Cross-sector / all sectors
- AI use cases
- Generative AI and foundation models
- AI system types
- General-purpose AI modelGenerative AI system
When do the requirements apply?
Dates are taken from the linked official source; a reviewer should confirm in-force and application dates before relying on them.
Official sources
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Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI
ASEAN Secretariat · 17 Jan 2025 · Tier 1 source
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AIPolicyTracker (2026). “Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025)” [AIPT-POL-0009, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0009 (accessed 27 October 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Cite the official text alongside it: Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI, ASEAN Secretariat, https://asean.org/.
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No change to this record's tracked fields has been recorded since 15 October 2026, when field-level history began.
Record version 1: Added in the September 2026 global coverage expansion from the official source listed; reviewer to confirm dates, status and scope against the source text. Every earlier wording is in the GitHub repository.
Frequently asked questions
Is Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025) in force?
Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025) has the status "guidance"; it is not a binding law in force.
Is Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025) legally binding?
No. Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025) is a guidance; it sets expectations rather than legal requirements, unless another instrument gives it force.
Who does Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025) apply to?
Voluntary; developers and deployers of generative AI across ASEAN.
Where is the official text of Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025)?
The official text is published by ASEAN Secretariat at https://asean.org/ (Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI). This record links to it and is checked against it.
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