ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics (2024)
Is this legally binding?
Guidance. Voluntary guidance. Best practice, not obligation, until a contract or a regulator cites it.
Regional voluntary guide endorsed at the 4th ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting in February 2024 by all ten ASEAN member states. Practical guidance for organisations designing, developing and deploying traditional AI, with seven guiding principles, governance components, and national and regional recommendations.
From the source
“This document serves as a practical guide for organisations in the region that wish to design, develop, and deploy traditional AI technologies”
ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics (Feb 2024), Executive Summary
Instrument record
- Short name
- ASEAN AI Guide
- Date
- 2024-02
- Version
- Not versioned
- Cluster
- asean
What this connects to
9 relations. Official relations are the ones the source documents state; anything marked GAGE analysis is our reading, not an agency's.
Operationalised by1
- InstrumentASEAN Responsible AI Roadmap (2025-2030)Guidance
Roadmap operationalises the Guide's principles into customised member-state actions through 2030
Issued by1
Cited by3
- InstrumentExpanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics, Generative AI (2025)Guidance
Expanded edition supplements and supports the 2024 Guide for generative AI
- InstrumentASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA)Emerging
ASEAN officials state the Guide's seven principles are embedded in DEFA's AI-related provisions
- SectionScope: emerging areas including AIEmerging
AI provisions draw on the ASEAN AI Guide principles
Maps across to2
- External frameworkClause 5: LeadershipStandardGAGE analysis, not official
Guide's governance recommendations align with AIMS leadership requirements
- External frameworkArticle 6 + Annex III: High-risk AI systemsBindingGAGE analysis, not official
Regional contrast: ASEAN's voluntary principles vs the EU's binding high-risk regime
Mapped across from2
- SectionFocus area: Targeted actions, initiatives and outcomesGuidanceGAGE analysis, not official
Targeted actions operationalise the Guide's governance components
- InstrumentVietnam Law on Artificial Intelligence No. 134/2025/QH15BindingGAGE analysis, not official
Regional contrast: Vietnam converts voluntary ASEAN-style principles into binding national law
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