Is Dimension 3: Trusted Development and Deployment legally binding?

Q: Is Dimension 3: Trusted Development and Deployment legally binding?

Dimension 3: Trusted Development and Deployment is guidance in Singapore. Voluntary guidance. Best practice, not obligation, until a contract or a regulator cites it. Enhancing meaningful transparency around baseline safety and hygiene measures based on industry best practices in development, evaluation and disclosure, incorporating and expanding the Model Framework for traditional AI.

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Dimension 3: Trusted Development and Deployment

Is this legally binding?

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

Enhancing meaningful transparency around baseline safety and hygiene measures based on industry best practices in development, evaluation and disclosure, incorporating and expanding the Model Framework for traditional AI.

From the source
“This involves industry adopting best practices in development, evaluation, and thereafter “food label”-type transparency and disclosure.”
Trusted Development and Deployment, pp.12-15

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5 relations. Official relations are the ones the source documents state; anything marked GAGE analysis is our reading, not an agency's.

Part of1

InstrumentModel AI Governance Framework for Generative AI (2024)Guidance

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Operationalises1

ConceptFostering a trusted AI ecosystemGuidance
Nine dimensions 'looked at in totality, to foster a trusted ecosystem'

Cites1

InstrumentModel AI Governance Framework, 2nd Edition (2020)Guidance
GenAI MGF footnote 2: MGF focus incorporated into and expanded under Trusted Development and Deployment dimension

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