# ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: ASEAN
- **Type**: supranational
- **Region**: Asia / South-East Asia

## In brief

ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has 2 recorded AI policy instruments, none of them binding. Voluntary regional guides (2024, 2025); no binding ASEAN AI regulation. Regulators include ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting (ADGMIN). Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

ASEAN has chosen voluntary, regionally harmonised guidance rather than binding regulation: the ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics (February 2024) sets principles and a governance framework for member states and organisations, and the Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (January 2025) addresses generative-AI risks. Member states retain their own instruments; Singapore's Model AI Governance Framework strongly influenced the guide.

## Regulatory status

Voluntary regional guides (2024, 2025); no binding ASEAN AI regulation.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics (2024); Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI (2025).

## Regulators

- ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting (ADGMIN) — Endorses regional digital and AI guidance — https://asean.org/

## How to use this profile

- Use the ASEAN guides as the regional baseline, then check each member state's own instruments.
- The guides are voluntary; obligations arise from national data-protection, consumer and sector law.

## Official sources

- ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics — ASEAN Secretariat — https://asean.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ASEAN-Guide-on-AI-Governance-and-Ethics_beautified_201223_v2.pdf

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (2)

- **ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics** — Guidance, Guidance, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/asean-guide-on-ai-governance-and-ethics
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/asean-guide-on-ai-governance-and-ethics.md
- **Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI** — Guidance, Guidance, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/asean-expanded-guide-on-generative-ai
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/asean-expanded-guide-on-generative-ai.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/asean
- **Official source**: https://asean.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ASEAN-Guide-on-AI-Governance-and-Ethics_beautified_201223_v2.pdf
- **Source document**: ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics
- **Published by**: ASEAN Secretariat
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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