# Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
- **Instrument type**: Guidance
- **Status**: Guidance
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting
- **Adopted**: 2025-01-17

## 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.

## Summary

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.

## Scope

Voluntary; developers and deployers of generative AI across ASEAN.

## Notes on dates

Dates are taken from the linked official source; a reviewer should confirm in-force and application dates before relying on them.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0009 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0009; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/asean-expanded-guide-on-generative-ai
- **Official source**: https://asean.org/
- **Source document**: Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI
- **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/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics – Generative AI" [AIPT-POL-0009, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0009 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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