MSIT to Set Out National AI Safety Master Plan; Public-Private Consultative Body to Launch
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The Ministry of Science and ICT said that the potential risks of advanced AI and rapid changes in technology and industry made it necessary to establish a safety policy framework that reflects field input.
Accordingly, it plans to draw up a "Master Plan for Creating a National AI Safety Ecosystem" this year and launch a public-private working consultative body starting in October.
The master plan has three main strategies: building a national AI safety management system, strengthening response capabilities for advanced AI safety, and creating a safe AI environment in people's daily lives, and the ministry plans to finalize it by December.
The Ministry of Science and ICT said that the potential risks of advanced AI have emerged as a major policy issue and that the technology and industrial environment are changing rapidly, making it necessary to establish a safety policy framework that reflects field input. Accordingly, it plans to draw up a "Master Plan for Creating a National AI Safety Ecosystem" this year to comprehensively organize national artificial intelligence (AI) safety policies.
To that end, the ministry will launch a public-private working consultative body starting in October with participation from industry and experts. Through this body, it will review the strategy and key tasks of the master plan currently under consideration.
The master plan's three main strategies are building a national AI safety management system, strengthening response capabilities for advanced AI safety, and creating a safe AI environment in people's daily lives. Based on the operation of the working consultative body, the ministry plans to reflect global AI safety policies and technology and industry trends, while supplementing existing tasks and identifying new policy tasks.
The AI working consultative body will comprise around 25 members, bringing together the ministry, the National Artificial Intelligence Committee, the AI Safety Research Institute, the National Information Society Agency (NIA), the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA), and other related organizations, as well as domestic and overseas AI companies and associations, and technology and legal experts.
The industry side will include major domestic AI companies, global companies, small and startup firms, the Korea AI and Software Industry Association (KOSA), and the Korea Startup Forum, with companies sharing on-site issues encountered in the process of AI development and use. Related organizations and experts will present areas for improvement from technology, policy, and legal perspectives.
Based on the consultative body's discussions, the ministry plans to finalize the master plan by December after consultations with related ministries. The master plan will focus on supporting AI innovation and establishing a national-level management system capable of responding to the risks of increasingly advanced models and services.
Lee Jin-soo, director general for AI policy planning at the ministry, said it was time to strengthen national capabilities in order to respond to the risks of advanced AI. He added that the ministry would prepare effective measures to build a national AI safety ecosystem by reflecting field acceptance, global AI safety policy trends, and global AI safety technology trends.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407611
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