# Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Technical and Application Guideline

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Hong Kong SAR
- **Instrument type**: Guidance
- **Status**: Guidance
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Digital Policy Office, with the Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre
- **Adopted**: 2025-04-15

## In brief

Generative AI Technical and Application Guideline (2025) is a non-binding guidance of Hong Kong SAR, issued by the Digital Policy Office, with the Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre. Its current status is guidance. Voluntary reference for developers, providers and users of generative AI in Hong Kong.

## Summary

Published in April 2025, the guideline covers the technical characteristics and risks of generative AI, governance principles (safety, transparency, accountability, data protection, fairness) and practical application guidance for developers, service providers and users across the AI lifecycle, and is intended as a reference for industry and government.

## Scope

Voluntary reference for developers, providers and users of generative AI in Hong Kong.

## Notes on dates

Month-level date.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0085 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0085; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/hong-kong-generative-ai-technical-and-application-guideline
- **Official source**: https://www.digitalpolicy.gov.hk/en/our_work/data_governance/policies_standards/ethical_ai_framework/
- **Source document**: Digital Policy Office: Ethical AI Framework and generative AI guideline
- **Published by**: Digital Policy Office
- **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). "Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Technical and Application Guideline" [AIPT-POL-0085, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0085 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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