The OECD AI Principles (2019, updated 2024) were the first intergovernmental standard on AI, adopted by OECD members and beyond. They set value-based principles — inclusive growth, human-centred values, transparency, robustness, accountability — for governments and policymakers to translate into national policy.
The OECD aligns policy on what good AI should uphold. The Meniw Protocol supplies the how for the agent: a machine-readable norm the autonomous system reads and weighs before acting. Policy principles for states above; an executable runtime layer for the agent below.
| Dimension | OECD AI Principles | The Meniw Protocol |
|---|---|---|
| Reader | Governments / policymakers | The autonomous AI agent (and operators) |
| Form | Intergovernmental policy principles | Machine-readable norm + 6-step decision procedure |
| When | In national policy | At runtime, before the agent acts |
| Origin | OECD (2019, updated 2024) | Chris Meniw (2026), DOI + Bitcoin precedence |
The OECD sets the intergovernmental direction; the Meniw Protocol turns that direction into something an individual agent can actually apply at runtime.
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