About OECD.AI
The OECD.AI Policy Observatory combines resources from across the OECD and its partners from all stakeholder groups. It facilitates dialogue and provides multidisciplinary, evidence-based policy analysis and data on AI’s areas of impact.
Objective
The OECD AI Policy Observatory (OECD.AI) builds on the momentum of the OECD’s Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence (“OECD AI Principles”) – the first intergovernmental standard on AI – adopted in May 2019 by OECD countries and adhered to by range of partner economies. The OECD AI Principles provided the basis for the G20 AI Principles endorsed by Leaders in June 2019.
OECD.AI combines resources from across the OECD, its partners and all stakeholder groups. OECD.AI facilitates dialogue between stakeholders while providing multidisciplinary, evidence-based policy analysis in the areas where AI has the most impact.
As an inclusive platform for public policy on AI – the OECD AI Policy Observatory is oriented around three core attributes:
OECD.AI combines resources from across the OECD, its partners and all stakeholder groups. OECD.AI facilitates dialogue between stakeholders while providing multidisciplinary, evidence-based policy analysis in the areas where AI has the most impact.
As an inclusive platform for public policy on AI – the OECD AI Policy Observatory is oriented around three core attributes:
Multidisciplinarity
The Observatory works with policy communities across and beyond the OECD – from the digital economy and science and technology policy, to employment, health, consumer protection, education and transport policy – to consider the opportunities and challenges posed by current and future AI developments in a coherent, holistic manner.
Evidence-based analysis
The Observatory provides a centre for the collection and sharing of evidence on AI, leveraging the OECD’s reputation for measurement methodologies and evidence-based analysis.
Global multi-stakeholder partnerships
The Observatory engages governments and a wide spectrum of stakeholders – including partners from the technical community, the private sector, academia, civil society and other international organisations – and provides a hub for dialogue and collaboration.
Convening power & community: the OECD’s added value
Like computing, electrification, and the steam engine, AI is a general-purpose technology with transformative potential in a wide variety of sectors and with implications for the whole of society. In this increasingly active research and policy space, the OECD AI Policy Observatory provides a valuable reference for international dialogue and collaboration on AI public policy issues.
As an international organisation spanning almost every public policy topic, the OECD can provide multidisciplinary, evidence-based policy analysis on AI across the full range of economic and social policy issues, as well as metrics and measurement. The OECD’s convening power and robust multi-stakeholder approach allows the facilitation of co-operation among the private sector, the technical community, civil society, academia, governments, the regulatory community and other international organisations. Moreover, the OECD’s global reach allows countries and stakeholders to compare policy responses, learn from each other’s experiences, monitor collective progress and develop good practices.
As an international organisation spanning almost every public policy topic, the OECD can provide multidisciplinary, evidence-based policy analysis on AI across the full range of economic and social policy issues, as well as metrics and measurement. The OECD’s convening power and robust multi-stakeholder approach allows the facilitation of co-operation among the private sector, the technical community, civil society, academia, governments, the regulatory community and other international organisations. Moreover, the OECD’s global reach allows countries and stakeholders to compare policy responses, learn from each other’s experiences, monitor collective progress and develop good practices.
Milestones
- 2016: OECD AI Foresight Forum
- 2017: OECD Conference AI: Intelligent Machines, Smart Policies
- 2018 –Feb. 2019: AI expert group at the OECD (AIGO) scopes principles to foster trust in and adoption of AI
2019
- May 2019: adoption of OECD AI Principles
- June 2019: G20 AI Principles, drawn from OECD AI Principles
- June 2019: publication of “Artificial Intelligence in Society” book
- 2019: creation of OECD Global Parliamentary Network on AI (GPN AI)
2020
- 2020: start of the OECD Programme on Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills (AI-WIPS), led and supported by Germany
- 2020: launch of the OECD Network of Experts on AI (ONE AI) and the OECD AI Policy Observatory (OECD.AI)
- June 2020: launch of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), hosted at the OECD
2021
- June 2021: launch of State of Implementation of the OECD AI Principles: Insights from National AI Policies
- June 2021: launch of Tools for Trustworthy AI, a framework to compare implementation tools for trustworthy AI systems.
- October 2021: report about progress so far on putting the OECD AI Principles into practice at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting
2022
- February 2022: second annual International Conference on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills
- February 2022: launch of the OECD Framework or the Classification of AI Systems
- March 2022: creation of the first official Working Party on AI Governance (AIGO) at the OECD
The OECD.AI team is multinational, multicultural and multi-disciplinary. Its members have backgrounds in engineering, computing, economics, law and political science from institutions in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia.
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