Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Assessment outcome
total 5/6 (actionability 1 + authority 2 + currency 2)
Authorship & scope
The issuing body is clearly named as UNESCO and its Member States.
Level 2: Official multilateral document issued by UNESCO and its Member States.
Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.
Eligibility gates
HTTP 200, 1189 words of full text extracted
The source is entirely about AI ethics and governance frameworks.
It addresses AI oversight, ethics, human rights, and policy recommendations.
The issuing body is clearly named as UNESCO and its Member States.
No text indicates that this recommendation has been superseded or withdrawn.
Scored criteria
Actionability
1/2Level 1: The quote outlines principles and policy directions without establishing binding steps.
This Recommendation doesn’t focus only on ethical values and principles but also lays out concrete policy recommendations to help implement them, across policy areas from gender to data to international cooperation.
Authority
2/2Level 2: Official multilateral document issued by UNESCO and its Member States.
In November 2021, UNESCO's 193 Member States adopted the first global standard on AI ethics: the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
Currency
2/2computed: newest date 2026-06-22 (via json-ld), ~0.2y old; within the 36-month standards_frameworks window for perspective 'Multilateral' → 2