Glossary term
Glossary term
Governance and Compliance
High-level commitments such as fairness, transparency, safety, accountability, privacy, human oversight, and reliability. Principles become useful only when translated into specific controls, evidence, and decision criteria. A mature program maps each principle to concrete requirements, such as bias testing for fairness, access controls for security, model cards for transparency, and incident procedures for accountability.
The OECD AI Principles (2019, updated 2024) include inclusive growth, human-centered values, transparency, robustness, and accountability, adopted by 47 countries.
Google's AI Principles published in 2018 led to its withdrawal from Project Maven and define prohibited applications such as weapons and surveillance violating international norms.
The Asilomar AI Principles (2017), signed by over 1,800 AI researchers including Stuart Russell and Yoshua Bengio, set 23 commitments covering research, ethics, and longer-term issues.