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Digital Thailand - AI Ethics Guideline

Digital Thailand - AI Ethics Guideline

Record TH-03

Issued by
Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (Office of the National Digital Economy and Society Commission)
Jurisdiction
Thailand
Level · region
National · South & Southeast Asia
Language
Thai

Summary

Thailand's AI ethics principles and guidelines, prepared under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society. They guide AI researchers, designers, developers and service providers in their work, let service recipients know their rights and the risks of AI services, and give state agencies and AI regulators a basis for promoting, supporting and supervising AI, so AI is reliable and secure and benefits people, society and the environment with transparency, inclusiveness and fairness, in line with law, ethics and human rights. After reviewing foreign and corporate frameworks, it sets six principles with guidance under each for state agencies and regulators, developers and providers, and users.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Thai text.

Safety topics

transparency & labellingaccountability & liabilityhuman oversight

Open question

checker: Summary matches the Thai text (own translations in summary_claims). Three field problems. (1) original_title was a constructed Thai phrase, not a printed title; fixed to the English title as printed. (2) The notes' dating inference 'not earlier than 2020' is unsupported; a corrected notes t Issue #17

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

Status notes

The 46-page document hosted by ETDA is undated. Its cover title is in English only; in its Thai text the document calls itself 'เอกสารหลักการและแนวทางจริยธรรมปัญญาประดิษฐ์' (AI ethics principles and guidelines document). The most recent sources it cites date from 2019, and it refers to the Ministry's strategy for B.E. 2563-2567 (2020-2024). Its six principles are Competitiveness and Sustainability Development; Laws, Ethics and International Standards; Transparency and Accountability; Security and Privacy; Fairness; and Reliability. They were later carried into ETDA's 2023 AI Governance Guideline for Executives. Its review covers OECD, Council of Europe, European Commission, Smart Dubai, Singapore PDPC, Microsoft and Beijing AI principles. The guideline has no enforcement mechanism; Thailand's binding AI framework is still at the stage of the 2026 draft Act on Artificial Intelligence.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.etda.or.th/getattachment/9d370f25-f37a-4b7c-b661-48d2d730651d/Digital-Thailand-AI-Ethics-Principle-and-Guideline.pdf.aspx?lang=th-TH

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-14 10:16:19 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/TH-03/2026-10-12/official.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-12 04:44:11 UTC
SHA-256 4cd1165385996de0a870270795745f5925c8eab47fcecd05b1a3215b4b9250ea

Verification

B
Another official source, such as an announcement by the issuer, confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-14 · alternative-official-url-fetched
Stored: the 46-page PDF hosted on the website of ETDA, a government agency under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, read through its text layer (the layer splits the Thai vowel sara am and garbles the headings, and quotes keep these artifacts). It confirms the English title in the running header, the Thai self-designation, the purpose, audiences, structure, the six principles and the guidance by audience. The cover is an image without a text layer: viewed as an image, it reads 'Digital Thailand AI ETHICS GUIDELINE' and 'Ministry of Digital Economy and Society' and carries no date and no Thai title. The attribution to the Office of the National Digital Economy and Society Commission is not in the stored copy. Not confirmed by any stored copy: a December 2020 date on a university mirror file, the 2021 date given by catalogue records and the OECD.AI Policy Navigator, and a first draft of the ethics framework in 2019.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-14: 7 field(s) supported, fixes applied to original_title, notes.

History

  1. 2026-10-14notes: The 46-page document hosted by ETDA is undated. It cites the Ministry's strategy → The 46-page document hosted by ETDA is undated. Its cover title is in English on — principle 2 is 'Laws, Ethics and International Standards' (the notes had 'law and ethics'); principles given with the document's own English labels; the self-designation and the list of reviewed frameworks added; dates from a mirror file and catalogue records and the 2019 draft moved to verification.note2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-14summary: Thailand's national AI ethics principles and practice guideline, prepared under → Thailand's AI ethics principles and guidelines, prepared under the Ministry of D — 'trustworthy' replaced by 'reliable' for 'ความน่าเชื่อถือ', the document's own English for the word (principle 6, 'Reliability'); the review is not limited to OECD, EU, Singapore and Dubai; added that the guidance is organised by audience2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-14original_title: แนวปฏิบัติจริยธรรมปัญญาประดิษฐ์ (Digital Thailand - AI Ethics Guideline) → Digital Thailand - AI Ethics Guideline — 'แนวปฏิบัติจริยธรรมปัญญาประดิษฐ์' does not occur in the document; the cover title is English only, and the Thai text calls the document 'เอกสารหลักการและแนวทางจริยธรรมปัญญาประดิษฐ์' (AI ethics principles and guidelines document), so the self-designation without 'เอกสาร' (document) is used2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  4. 2026-10-14title: Digital Thailand – AI Ethics Guideline (Thailand AI Ethics Principles and Guidel → Digital Thailand - AI Ethics Guideline — the parenthetical '(Thailand AI Ethics Principles and Guideline)' is not in the document (it follows the file name); the title is now the document's own English title from its cover and running header2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  5. 2026-10-14english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — No English version in the stored copies, and none found in a targeted search on 14 Oct 2026.manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  6. 2026-10-14language: Thai (English headings) → Thai — The translation check found the official text in this language only; the English texts are translations (recorded in english_version where stored).manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (Office of the National Digital Economy and Society Commission). Digital Thailand - AI Ethics Guideline. n.d.. https://www.etda.or.th/getattachment/9d370f25-f37a-4b7c-b661-48d2d730651d/Digital-Thailand-AI-Ethics-Principle-and-Guideline.pdf.aspx?lang=th-TH. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-14 (level B). Local copy archive/TH-03/2026-10-12/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-12 04:44:11 UTC, SHA-256 4cd1165385996de0a870270795745f5925c8eab47fcecd05b1a3215b4b9250ea. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record TH-03.

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