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Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group Action Plan 2026

Record INT-20

Issued by
Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group (66 countries and regions) with its Partners Community, at the Second In-Person Meeting hosted by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Tokyo
Jurisdiction
Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group
Level · region
International · Global
Published / adopted
2026-03-16
Language
English

Summary

Voluntary action plan agreed at the second in-person meeting of the Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group (Tokyo, 15-16 March 2026) to promote safe, secure and trustworthy AI over the following year. It lists workshops on the OECD AI Principles toolkit and the HAIP Reporting Framework, capacity-building and information-sharing on AI governance and transparency, a group study on interoperability between the HAIP and other frameworks, AI Academy courses with the World Bank and talent programmes for the Global South. An annex details member and partner projects, including a Singapore IMDA workshop on chatbot safety transparency and agentic-AI risks.

Safety topics

international cooperationtransparency & labellinggeneral-purpose / frontier AI

Scope

Borderline scope Voluntary action plan of a government group; safety content is procedural (reporting, transparency, interoperability). Core enough under the HAIP precedents, but a scope note would be reasonable.

Status notes

The Friends Group was launched in May 2024 as a voluntary framework of countries supporting the spirit of the HAIP; as of March 2026 it had 66 countries and regions and 38 organisations in its Partners Community. The Tokyo meeting of 15-16 March 2026, hosted by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications with the OECD and the World Bank as co-hosts, was attended by 34 Friends Group countries and regions, Brazil as an observer and 32 partner organisations. The plan is to be shared in coming international discussions. At the meeting the OECD announced a pilot version aimed at revising the HAIP Reporting Framework (OECD-02), and the World Bank announced an AI Academy to support capacity building in the Global South. The G7 Digital and Technology Ministers, meeting in Paris on 29 May under France's presidency, welcomed the Friends Group's initiatives and 'the related Action Plan announced in March 2026' (G7-04).

Sources

Open the official source https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/joho_tsusin/eng/pressrelease/2026/pdf/image_20260316_2_2.pdf

Secondary source: https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/joho_tsusin/eng/pressrelease/2026/3/16_2.html

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 16:30:08 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/INT-20/2026-10-11/official.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:53 UTC
SHA-256 4c324616e053f45786b3de1dd70976380d7df8667034b9445cc2f9d046cf75ac
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/INT-20/2026-10-11/secondary.html
Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:56 UTC
SHA-256 ac425431222f93436842005729989361d242d282a3a9dd2d838aae20b0b5321f

Verification

A
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 Action Plan PDF (8 pages) on the MIC Japan site, the MIC press release on the meeting, and the G7 Ministerial Declaration on Digital & Technology on MIC Japan's HAIP site. The PDF confirms the title, the 16 March 2026 date, the membership figures and the listed initiatives; the press release confirms the meeting dates, the hosts, attendance and the OECD and World Bank announcements; the G7 declaration confirms the ministers' welcome of the plan.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 6 field(s) supported, fixes applied to scope_note.

History

  1. 2026-10-17scope_note: – → Voluntary action plan of a government group; safety content is procedural (repor — pipeline run 2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 (recheck), candidate INT-202026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-17notes: The Friends Group was launched in May 2024 as a voluntary framework of countries → The Friends Group was launched in May 2024 as a voluntary framework of countries — 'later released as version 2.0' and the evaluative last sentence removed; the meeting's hosts and co-hosts added from the press release; the G7 ministers' welcome of the plan rests on the stored declaration2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

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

HAIP Comprehensive Policy Framework 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)

OECD AI Principles OECD · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group (66 countries and regions) with its Partners Community, at the Second In-Person Meeting hosted by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Tokyo. Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group Action Plan 2026. 2026-03-16. https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/joho_tsusin/eng/pressrelease/2026/pdf/image_20260316_2_2.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/INT-20/2026-10-11/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:53 UTC, SHA-256 4c324616e053f45786b3de1dd70976380d7df8667034b9445cc2f9d046cf75ac. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record INT-20.

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