Not everything in the roadmap was abandoned. Its seven Responsible-AI principles are the clearest example of something that survived — carried forward, almost verbatim, into the governance that followed. This page traces that thread, because it is the part of the AI-Rmap with the strongest claim to a legacy.
It is also a useful corrective. A review that only catalogued failures would be incomplete and unfair. The principles show the roadmap getting something right and durable.
From roadmap principles to national guidelines
2021 — AI-Rmap principles
- Fairness
- Reliability, safety & control
- Privacy & security
- Inclusiveness
- Transparency
- Accountability
- Pursuit of human benefit & happiness
- Status: principles stated; no enforcement body
2024 — AIGE guidelines
- Fairness
- Reliability, safety & human control
- Privacy & security
- Inclusiveness
- Transparency
- Accountability
- Pursuit of human benefit / human-centricity
- Status: published guidelines; law to follow
The seven principles carried across essentially unchanged — the strongest line of continuity between the roadmap and what came after.
What actually happened to the principles
A telling detail
The AIGE was launched by MOSTI — the roadmap’s author — yet the opening address was given by the Digital Minister. That single event captures the whole transitional moment: the old ministry still holding the ethics work it began, the new ministry already speaking for AI. The principles bridged the handoff even as the institutions changed beneath them.
The principles are from the National AI Roadmap 2021–2025 (MOSTI; archived here). The AIGE was launched by MOSTI on 20 September 2024, built on the same seven principles and framed as supporting the AI-Rmap; it is voluntary, with statutory measures anticipated. The seven-principle wording is reproduced from public summaries of both documents.
Full sources: airmap.my/sources. Independent of MOSTI, the Ministry of Digital and NAIO.