History Made: OECD Adopts First Intergovernmental Standard on AI Tech

According to OECD's Director of the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate Andrew Wyckoff, the released document, titled "Recommendations of the Council on Artificial Intelligence," will hopefully establish a regulatory environment to promote AI technology in an ethical manner. "AI is what we would call a'general purpose technology.' It's going to change the way we do things in nearly every single sector of the economy -- that's part of the reason we give so much importance to its development," he told reporters Wednesday, according to Defense One. "Some have termed it as'the invention of a method of inventions,' and in fact we can see it already affecting the process of scientific discovery and science itself." The principles outlined in the document have been signed by the OECD's 36 member countries, as well as by the US, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Romania.