The Recommendation responds to rapid advances in AI, robotics and biotechnology that challenge human dignity, autonomy and existing legal safeguards. It urges modernised legal and ethical frameworks that ensure human control, accountability, transparency, privacy and effective oversight across public and private uses of AI. By calling on the Committee of Ministers to develop standards and guidance, it became one of the Council of Europe’s earliest steps toward a human-rights-centred AI governance agenda and paved the way for later CAHAI work and the Framework Convention.