The OECD Council updated the Recommendation to reflect general-purpose and generative AI, misinformation and environmental sustainability, and adopted a revised definition of an AI system used by the EU AI Act and other laws.
Practical impact: The revised definition is the reference for scoping AI systems across jurisdictions.
OECD AI Principles (Recommendation on AI) OECD/LEGAL/0449
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Resolution A/RES/78/265, adopted by consensus with more than 120 co-sponsors, encourages states to promote trustworthy AI for sustainable development and to develop governance frameworks.
Practical impact: Non-binding, but it anchors AI governance in the UN system and led to the 2025 scientific panel and global dialogue.
UN General Assembly resolution 78/265 on safe, secure and trustworthy AI A/RES/78/265
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ISO and IEC published ISO/IEC 42001:2023, a certifiable management-system standard for organisations developing, providing or using AI, with lifecycle controls in Annex A.
Practical impact: Organisations can certify AI governance; procurement and regulators increasingly reference it as evidence.
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 AI management system ISO/IEC 42001:2023
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At the first AI Safety Summit, signatories including the US, China and the EU agreed to cooperate on identifying and managing frontier-AI safety risks, launching the summit series and the network of AI safety institutes.
Practical impact: Signals that frontier-model safety evaluation would become a shared government priority; no direct obligations.
Bletchley Declaration (AI Safety Summit 2023) The Bletchley Declaration
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G7 leaders agreed international guiding principles and a voluntary code of conduct with eleven actions for organisations developing advanced AI systems, including risk evaluation, incident monitoring, transparency reporting and content authentication.
Practical impact: Frontier and foundation-model developers gained a common voluntary baseline that later fed into the OECD reporting framework and the EU GPAI code of practice.
193 member states adopted the first global normative instrument on AI ethics at the 41st General Conference, with values, principles and eleven policy action areas and a readiness assessment methodology for implementation.
Practical impact: Governments use the readiness assessment to shape national AI strategies; organisations can use its ethical impact assessment.
UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
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The OECD Council adopted the Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence, setting five principles for trustworthy AI and five recommendations to governments; the G20 endorsed principles drawn from it in June 2019.
Practical impact: Baseline reference for national AI policies and later laws; organisations can map governance to its five principles.
OECD AI Principles (Recommendation on AI) OECD/LEGAL/0449
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