# ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics

- **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**: 2024-02-02

## In brief

ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics (2024) is a non-binding guidance of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), issued by ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting. Its current status is guidance. Voluntary; for organisations deploying traditional AI in commercial and non-military contexts across ASEAN member states.

## Summary

Endorsed at the 4th ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting in February 2024, the guide sets seven guiding principles (transparency and explainability, fairness and equity, security and safety, human-centricity, privacy and data governance, accountability and integrity, robustness and reliability) and a four-part governance framework (internal governance structures, human involvement in decision-making, operations management, stakeholder interaction), with national and regional recommendations including an ASEAN working group on AI governance.

## Scope

Voluntary; for organisations deploying traditional AI in commercial and non-military contexts across ASEAN member states.

## 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-0010 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0010; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/asean-guide-on-ai-governance-and-ethics
- **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**: high
- **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). "ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics" [AIPT-POL-0010, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0010 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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