Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI)

The Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Lawwas adopted on 17 May 2024 by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe at its 133th Session held in Strasbourg, and will be opened for signature on the occasion of the Conference of Ministers of Justice in Vilnius (Lithuania) on 5 September 2024.

With the formal adoption by the Committee of Ministers, the Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law negotiated by the CAI is now definitely the first binding international treaty on AI and waiting to be signed and ratified by countries.

In contrast to hopes and fears to the contrary, the negotiating parties have neither intended to create new substantive human rights nor to undermine the scope and content of the existing applicable protections. The intention of the parties negotiating the instrument has been to make sure that each party’s existing protection levels of human rights, democracy and rule of law would also apply to current and future challenges raised by AI.

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