Is Launch of Model AI Governance Framework, 1st edition legally binding?

Launch of Model AI Governance Framework, 1st edition is guidance in Singapore. Voluntary guidance. Best practice, not obligation, until a contract or a regulator cites it. Singapore launched the first edition of the Model AI Governance Framework at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos in January 2019.

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Launch of Model AI Governance Framework, 1st edition

Is this legally binding?

Guidance. Voluntary guidance. Best practice, not obligation, until a contract or a regulator cites it.

Superseded. Kept on the map because programmes built against it are now built against nothing.

Singapore launched the first edition of the Model AI Governance Framework at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos in January 2019.

imda.gov.sgPress release, 22 Jan 2020 (background paragraph)Show it on the map

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2019-01-23IMDA/PDPC launch the Model AI Governance Framework (1st edition) at WEF Davos, Asia's first model AI governance framework

What this connects to

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InstrumentModel AI Governance Framework, 2nd Edition (2020)GuidanceGAGE analysis, not official
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EventLaunch of Model AI Governance Framework, 2nd editionGuidance

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