# Voluntary Code of Conduct on the Responsible Development and Management of Advanced Generative AI Systems

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Canada
- **Instrument type**: Guidance
- **Status**: Guidance
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- **Adopted**: 2023-09-27

## In brief

Voluntary Code of Conduct on the Responsible Development and Management of Advanced Generative AI Systems is a non-binding guidance of Canada, issued by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Its current status is guidance. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below.

## Summary

This voluntary code asks Canadian developers and managers of advanced generative AI systems to commit to measures under six principles: accountability, safety, fairness and equity, transparency, human oversight and monitoring, and validity and robustness. Obligations are scaled according to whether a system is made available for general public use. It was introduced as a bridge while the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act was before Parliament, and lists around fifty signatory organisations.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Oversight: ISED administers; signatory companies self-implement the commitments. Stated purpose: Interim voluntary safeguards for generative AI developers pending binding legislation.

## Key dates

2023-09-27: Code published with initial signatories

## Notes on dates

Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0043 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0043; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/canada-voluntary-code-of-conduct-on-the-responsible-development-and-management-of-advanced-generative-ai-syste
- **Official source**: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/voluntary-code-conduct-responsible-development-and-management-advanced-generative-ai-systems
- **Source document**: Voluntary Code of Conduct on the Responsible Development and Management of Advanced Generative AI Systems
- **Published by**: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- **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). "Voluntary Code of Conduct on the Responsible Development and Management of Advanced Generative AI Systems" [AIPT-POL-0043, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0043 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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