Hiroshima AI Process Comprehensive Policy Framework (Hiroshima AI Process G7 Digital & Tech Ministers' Statement)

Record G7-03

Issued by: G7 Digital and Tech Ministers; endorsed by G7 Leaders (6 Dec 2023)
Jurisdiction: G7
Level · region: International · Global
Published / adopted: 2023-12-01
Language: English, Japanese

Summary

Framework endorsed by the G7 Digital and Tech Ministers as the outcome of the Hiroshima AI Process under Japan's 2023 presidency, described as the first successful international framework of guiding principles and a code of conduct for advanced AI. Its four elements are the OECD report towards a G7 common understanding on generative AI, the Guiding Principles extended to all AI actors with a 12th principle on responsible use, digital literacy and sharing information on emerging risks, the Code of Conduct for organisations developing advanced AI systems, and project-based cooperation on content authentication, labelling of AI-generated content and countering disinformation.

Safety topics

general-purpose / frontier AItransparency & labellingdeepfakes & synthetic mediainternational cooperation

Status notes

Agreed at a virtual meeting of the G7 Digital & Tech Ministers on 1 Dec 2023, with a work plan for 2024 under the Italian presidency that includes developing monitoring tools to help organisations stay accountable for applying the Code of Conduct; G7 Leaders endorsed the framework and the work plan in their statement of 6 Dec 2023. The framework states that users of open-sourced advanced AI are not exempt from the relevant principles. Later G7 texts that continue the Hiroshima AI Process include the Italian presidency's ministerial declaration with an annex on advancing its outcomes (15 Mar 2024), the Canadian presidency's industry, digital and technology ministerial declaration (Dec 2025) and the French presidency's ministerial declaration of May 2026 (G7-04). The HAIP Friends Group adopted an action plan in March 2026 (INT-20), and the OECD runs the HAIP Reporting Framework (OECD-02).

Sources

Open the official source https://www.soumu.go.jp/hiroshimaaiprocess/pdf/document02_en.pdf

Secondary source: https://www.soumu.go.jp/hiroshimaaiprocess/en/documents.html

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 13:37:25 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/G7-03/2026-10-11/official.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-11 13:57:18 UTC

SHA-256 58bc49facb8d1ca4f46553ce224e77ba12a0bb8c8fd89e78fca7d26244f3b128

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/G7-03/2026-10-11/secondary.html

Retrieved 2026-10-11 13:57:33 UTC

SHA-256 a2ebdff0dba81688bb91211b52c1f8ffb51f669dfcc00590112d7d336bc2abba

Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-17 · official-url-fetched

Stored and read in this run: the Ministers' Statement of 1 Dec 2023 with the attached framework and Annex 1 (soumu.go.jp, official), which confirms the title, the date, the four elements, the 12th principle and the work plan; the G7 Leaders' Statement of 6 Dec 2023 (soumu.go.jp), which confirms the Leaders' endorsement of the framework and the work plan; and MIC Japan's HAIP documents page (stored 11 Oct 2026), which lists the 2023 documents and the later Italian, Canadian and French texts and the Friends Group Action Plan 2026. The documents page dates the Canadian ministerial declaration 10 Dec 2025; the declaration itself, stored for G7-05, gives 9 Dec 2025.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 5 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-17notes: Agreed by G7 Digital & Tech Ministers on 1 Dec 2023 and endorsed by G7 Leaders o → Agreed at a virtual meeting of the G7 Digital & Tech Ministers on 1 Dec 2023, wi — the 2024 work plan, the open-source sentence and the later G7 texts listed on MIC Japan's HAIP page added; 'a HAIP Friends Group of non-G7 supporters' corrected (the stored page lists the Friends Group Action Plan 2026 without describing its members) and linked to INT-202026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17related: [{"slug": "hiroshima-process-guiding-principles-advanced-ai", "id": "G7-01"}, {" → [{"id": "G7-01", "slug": "hiroshima-process-guiding-principles-advanced-ai"}, {" — INT-20 (Friends Group Action Plan 2026), G7-04 and G7-05 added; G7-04 and G7-05 already link here2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17summary: The G7's first international framework for governing advanced and generative AI, → Framework endorsed by the G7 Digital and Tech Ministers as the outcome of the Hi — 'the G7's first international framework' restated as the Ministers' own description; the 12th principle for all AI actors added2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

G7 Hiroshima Guiding Principles G7 · Published (non-binding, current)

G7 Hiroshima Code of Conduct G7 · Published (non-binding, current)

HAIP Reporting Framework OECD / G7 · Published (non-binding, current)

G7 Digital & Tech Ministerial Declaration 2026 (Paris) G7 · Published (non-binding, current)

G7 Leaders' Statement on AI for Prosperity (Kananaskis, 2025) G7 · Published (non-binding, current)

HAIP Friends Group Action Plan 2026 Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

G7 Digital and Tech Ministers; endorsed by G7 Leaders (6 Dec 2023). Hiroshima AI Process Comprehensive Policy Framework (Hiroshima AI Process G7 Digital & Tech Ministers' Statement). 2023-12-01. https://www.soumu.go.jp/hiroshimaaiprocess/pdf/document02_en.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/G7-03/2026-10-11/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-11 13:57:18 UTC, SHA-256 58bc49facb8d1ca4f46553ce224e77ba12a0bb8c8fd89e78fca7d26244f3b128. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record G7-03.

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