AI Bill of Rights

The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights is a non-binding US framework articulating five principles for responsible AI deployment in consequential domains.

What is the AI Bill of Rights?

The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights is a non-binding framework published by the US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in October 2022. It articulates five principles for the design, use, and deployment of automated systems: safe and effective systems, algorithmic discrimination protections, data privacy, notice and explanation, and human alternatives, consideration, and fallback.

Unlike the EU AI Act, the AI Bill of Rights creates no legal obligations. It is policy guidance that has influenced US federal AI procurement (especially OMB M-24-10) and several state-level efforts, but it does not directly bind private-sector vendors.

Why buyers cite it

Enterprise procurement teams reference the AI Bill of Rights to set principle-level expectations even when no statute applies. The framework is concrete enough to translate into questions: does the vendor publish algorithmic impact assessments, can they explain why a particular automated decision was made, are there human-in-the-loop fallbacks for high-stakes outcomes. Asking vendors to align their disclosures with the five principles is a useful diligence framing even without legal force.

Relationship to other frameworks

The AI Bill of Rights is principle-level; NIST AI RMF (NIST AI 100-1) is the operational framework that translates the principles into managed risk processes. Many vendors will reference the AI Bill of Rights in marketing and NIST AI RMF in their actual control documentation. The EU AI Act creates binding obligations that overlap conceptually with the principles but with much more specific legal force.