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Guide on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and Ethics for Brunei Darussalam

Garis Panduan Tadbir Urus dan Etika Kecerdasan Buatan untuk Brunei Darussalam

Record BN-01

Issued by
Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI), with the AI Governance and Ethics Working Group
Jurisdiction
Brunei
Level · region
National · South & Southeast Asia
Published / adopted
2025-04-11
Language
English, Malay

Summary

Principles-based guide by Brunei's Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry (AITI), developed with an AI Governance and Ethics Working Group, for organisations that design, develop, deploy or use AI. It sets seven principles: transparency and explainability; data protection and data governance; security and safety; robustness and reliability; fairness and equity; human centricity; and accountability and integrity. Its governance framework covers people, process and technology: internal governance roles, risk impact assessments that set the level of human involvement, lifecycle risk management, testing, security safeguards and incident response plans.

Safety topics

human oversightaccountability & liabilityevaluation & testingtransparency & labelling

Open question

checker: The guide's own PDF on aiti.gov.bn now backs the title, issuer and non-binding character (official); the date rests on the press release (alt-official), so level B. A Second Edition is listed on AITI's own site and may replace the stored edition, so the status 'current' and possibly the dat Issue #188

The record shows its last checked values until a maintainer decides; the decision is recorded in its history.

Status notes

AITI set up the AI Governance and Ethics Working Group in May 2024 with 25 members from government, industry and academia (the guide lists 24 member organisations) and released a public consultation paper on the draft guide on 9 July 2024, which drew feedback from 17 respondents. The guide describes itself as a baseline of considerations and safeguards that organisations in any sector may extend with sector-specific measures, and says it may be amended periodically with prior notice. Its principles align with the ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics, and it names ISO/IEC 42001:2023 and Singapore's AI Verify as examples of a management-system standard and a testing framework. The guide carries an AITI 2024 copyright line. AITI's AI governance page also lists a 'Second Edition' of the guide, without a date.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.aiti.gov.bn/guide-books/guide-on-ai-governance-and-ethics-for-brunei-darussalam

Secondary source: https://www.aiti.gov.bn/news/2025/guide-on-artificial-intelligence-governance-and-ethics-for-brunei-darussalam/

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-18 07:41:44 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/BN-01/2026-10-18/official.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-18 07:42:01 UTC
SHA-256 c1bebec57cf3896f611ecbdba2a2c18280abb4793c8485f158fbd19f2df867ea
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/BN-01/2026-10-18/secondary.html
Retrieved 2026-10-18 07:42:04 UTC
SHA-256 90c70a7c370069c3b1cd2fde736d482b2f5e4f9d20c8d75e34be3f67ab94166c

Verification

B
Another official source, such as an announcement by the issuer, confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · alternative-official-url-fetched
Refresh of 18 Oct 2026. official_url now points at the guide itself: the PDF served from AITI's guide-books page (39 pages; stored in this run as an official source, identical to the copy stored as the record's secondary source on 12 Oct 2026). It confirms the title, AITI and the working group as authors, the guide's non-binding character and that it may be amended with prior notice. AITI's press release of 11 April 2025 (aiti.gov.bn, in Malay and English; copy of 12 Oct 2026, unchanged on 18 Oct 2026), now the secondary_url, gives the release date and the Malay title. The guide itself gives no date other than a copyright line of 2024, so the date rests on the release, an announcement, and the record is level B. AITI's AI governance and ethics page (aiti.gov.bn, stored in this run) gives the working group's formation in May 2024 with 25 members, the consultation paper of 9 July 2024 with 17 responses, and download links for the guide and a 'Second Edition' shown only in a third-party flipbook viewer (flowpaper.com) that exposes no text, so its date and changes are unknown.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 7 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 2026-10-18verification.level: A → B — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-18secondary_url: https://www.aiti.gov.bn/guide-books/guide-on-ai-governance-and-ethics-for-brunei → https://www.aiti.gov.bn/news/2025/guide-on-artificial-intelligence-governance-an — the press release, which gives the release date and the Malay title, replaces the guide PDF, now the official_url2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-18official_url: https://www.aiti.gov.bn/news/2025/guide-on-artificial-intelligence-governance-an → https://www.aiti.gov.bn/guide-books/guide-on-ai-governance-and-ethics-for-brunei — the record pointed at AITI's press release; the guide's own text (PDF on AITI's guide-books page) becomes official_url (rule 7c)2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  4. 2026-10-18notes: Prepared by a working group led by AITI with 24 member organisations formed in M → AITI set up the AI Governance and Ethics Working Group in May 2024 with 25 membe — rewritten from AITI's AI governance page (working group of May 2024 with 25 members, consultation paper of 9 July 2024 with 17 responses, a listed Second Edition) and the guide; version 1's statements on the parliamentary answer about Version 2.0, a Data and AI Strategy and the OECD.AI listing rest on no stored file and were removed; AI Verify added2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  5. 2026-10-18summary: Brunei's first national AI governance instrument: a principles-based, guide for → Principles-based guide by Brunei's Authority for Info-communications Technology — 'Brunei's first national AI governance instrument' rests on no stored file and was dropped; the stray comma removed; reworded from the guide (people, process and technology; risk impact assessments; incident response plans)2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  6. 2026-10-14country: Brunei Darussalam → Brunei — Country names follow pipeline/frame.json, which uses common English short names; titles and issuing bodies keep the issuer's own spelling.manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  7. 2026-10-14jurisdiction: Brunei Darussalam → Brunei — Country names follow pipeline/frame.json, which uses common English short names; titles and issuing bodies keep the issuer's own spelling.manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI), with the AI Governance and Ethics Working Group. Guide on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and Ethics for Brunei Darussalam. 2025-04-11. https://www.aiti.gov.bn/guide-books/guide-on-ai-governance-and-ethics-for-brunei-darussalam. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level B). Local copy archive/BN-01/2026-10-18/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-18 07:42:01 UTC, SHA-256 c1bebec57cf3896f611ecbdba2a2c18280abb4793c8485f158fbd19f2df867ea. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record BN-01.

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