No Room to Slow Korea's AI Pace, says Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon, Emphasizing
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon said Korea has no room to slow AI development because of the country's competitive situation. He stressed that safety and trust systems must be strengthened in step with the risks that come with AI progress. He also said the government is currently pushing ahead with a proprietary AI foundation model and presented VLM and VLA as the next stage.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon said Korea should keep moving forward rather than slow development, citing the country's AI competition. Bae posted on Facebook on the 16th and said that, from the Republic of Korea's perspective, an AI slowdown is not possible at the moment. He also said Korea cannot afford to ease the pace of AI development in discussions around the so-called "AI speed adjustment" argument.
At the same time, Bae stressed that it is not enough to focus only on speed and that safety and trust systems must be strengthened in step with the risks that come with AI progress. He said stronger safety and trust frameworks are needed to address AI risks, and emphasized "speed responsibility" aligned with the pace of technological development.
Bae explained that the government is currently pushing ahead with the development of a proprietary AI foundation model based on a large language model (LLM). He presented vision language models (VLM) and vision language action models (VLA) as the next stage in that development direction.
Bae stressed that the scope of AI use must be expanded across industry and into everyday life for the public. The same message was also presented at the "Meeting with Operators of the Everyone's AI Project" held on the 4th. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon attended the meeting. Photo credit: the Ministry of Science and ICT.
An assessment said that whether Korea secures frontier AI capabilities close to AGI in the future could affect not only industry and the economy but also security and national competitiveness. Leading countries such as the United States and China are continuing the AI development race, and because Korea is in the position of a follower, its preemptive slowdown is interpreted as inappropriate.
Deputy Prime Minister Bae said that a slowdown by leading countries and a voluntary slowdown by follower countries are different issues. This is linked to the view that, as competition among leading countries continues, Korea should not be the first to slow its development pace.
However, he also emphasized the need to strengthen safety measures alongside faster AI development. The response agenda included deepfakes, cybersecurity, personal data protection, and changes in jobs, and he said technical and institutional measures are needed to address them. He also said that building a safety and trust foundation centered on the Framework Act on Artificial Intelligence is necessary.
Deputy Prime Minister Bae said speed is competitiveness and safety is sustainability. He also stressed that speed and safety are not mutually exclusive, and that Korea's goal is to become a faster and safer AI nation.
Bae said the government will prepare the AI policies and projects currently under way without disruption, and mentioned institutional preparations for the enforcement of the Framework Act on Artificial Intelligence, development of a proprietary AI foundation model, "Everyone's AI," the security-specialized model project, and the frontier AI model project.
He also said he would soon explain to the public the next stage of the proprietary AI model, and that he would soon explain the direction of Korea's frontier AI model development. He added that Korea will not slow its AI push, but will move it forward more quickly while making it safer.
Source: IT DAILY · Yang Seung-gap
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