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Row 3 · m003-unesco-recommendation-on-the-ethics-of-aiCore

UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI

Global and Multilateral Governance SourcesMultilateraltopic page

Assessment outcome

total 5/6 (actionability 1 + authority 2 + currency 2)

Total5/6
Actionability1/2
Authority2/2
Currency2/2

Eligibility gates

G1 · Retrievablepass

HTTP 200, 1189 words of full text extracted

G2 · AI nexuspass

The source is entirely about AI ethics and governance frameworks.

G3 · Governance nexuspass

It addresses AI oversight, ethics, human rights, and policy recommendations.

G4 · Attributablepass

The issuing body is clearly named as UNESCO and its Member States.

G5 · In forcepass

No text indicates that this recommendation has been superseded or withdrawn.

Scored criteria

Actionability

1/2

Level 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

2/2

Level 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

2/2

computed: newest date 2026-06-22 (via json-ld), ~0.2y old; within the 36-month standards_frameworks window for perspective 'Multilateral' → 2

Classification

Coverage topicEthics of AI
PerspectiveMultilateral
Lifecycle stageN/A cross-cutting
Layerboth
Trackgeneral
Granularitytopic page