Is ASEAN Responsible AI Roadmap (2025-2030) legally binding?

Q: Is ASEAN Responsible AI Roadmap (2025-2030) legally binding?

ASEAN Responsible AI Roadmap (2025-2030) is guidance in Singapore. Voluntary guidance. Best practice, not obligation, until a contract or a regulator cites it. Adopted 5 March 2025, the Roadmap gives ASEAN policymakers and stakeholders customised, step-by-step actions to operationalise responsible AI by 2030, aligned with the ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2025 and the then-upcoming DEFA. Non-binding regional guidance.

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ASEAN Responsible AI Roadmap (2025-2030)

Is this legally binding?

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

Adopted 5 March 2025, the Roadmap gives ASEAN policymakers and stakeholders customised, step-by-step actions to operationalise responsible AI by 2030, aligned with the ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2025 and the then-upcoming DEFA. Non-binding regional guidance.

asean.orgASEAN Responsible AI Roadmap (2025-2030), asean.org book pageShow it on the map

Instrument record

Short name: ASEAN RAI Roadmap
Date: 2025-03-05
Version: Not versioned
Cluster: asean

What this connects to

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Operationalises1

InstrumentASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics (2024)Guidance
Roadmap operationalises the Guide's principles into customised member-state actions through 2030

Issued by1

AgencyASEAN SecretariatGuidance

Cites1

InstrumentExpanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics, Generative AI (2025)Guidance
Roadmap complements the Guide and the GenAI expanded edition

Cited by1

InstrumentASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA)Emerging
Roadmap was developed in line with the provisions of the then-upcoming DEFA

Maps across to1

External frameworkClause 4: Context of the organizationStandardGAGE analysis, not official
Roadmap readiness assessment shapes national AIMS-context conditions

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