Kakao Releases AI Ethics Principles for the Era of Autonomous Agents
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Kakao unveiled its AI ethics principles SPIRIT, its operating framework NORMA, and an implementation checklist. SPIRIT consists of 6 principles: Safety, Privacy, Inclusivity, Responsibility, Individual Autonomy, and Transparency & Trustworthiness. The new checklist will be operated in 3 stages and is planned to be applied to service development and operation processes within the year.
Kakao has established AI ethics principles and an implementation framework to respond to the spread of autonomous agents. The scope covers everything from planning to operation of AI services.
Kakao unveiled its AI ethics principles, "SPIRIT," its operating framework, "NORMA," and an AI ethics implementation checklist at the developer conference "if(kakao)26" held on the 13th at Kakao AI Campus.
SPIRIT consists of 6 principles: Safety, Privacy, Inclusivity, Responsibility, Individual Autonomy, and Transparency & Trustworthiness. SPIRIT is based on the 3 core values and 7 principles of the "Republic of Korea's AI Ethics Principles," and Kakao supplemented the details to fit its service environment.
Kakao said it has designated NORMA (Navigating, Organizational, Responsibility, Manageable, Actionable) as the operating framework for applying the ethics principles to actual services. It said the framework is intended to handle complex ethical issues as a shared organizational responsibility and to break them down into manageable items and actionable steps.
The principles and guidelines were prepared earlier this month. In the process, 7 external advisers from the AI and Technology Ethics Subcommittee, launched in July, reviewed alignment with domestic and international norms, while departments related to AI Safety, privacy, information security, and services also participated from a practical perspective.
Kakao said it divides autonomous agent risk management into 5 areas: control authority, goals, permissions, reference resources, and interaction. It also said each area is managed by linking control items such as human oversight, emergency control, permission control, and data protection.
Since releasing its "Algorithm Ethics Charter" in 2018, Kakao has gradually expanded its AI ethics framework. In 2022, it established the AI and Technology Ethics Subcommittee, which includes Kakao and its major affiliates, and later introduced responsible AI guidelines, the principle of Individual Autonomy, and a core checklist for safe AI. Based on this existing and expanding AI ethics framework, Kakao has prepared a new AI ethics implementation checklist.
The AI ethics implementation checklist is structured and operated in 3 stages. The 3 stages are identifying service characteristics, pre-screening risks, and checking and determining control items. Kakao plans to apply the new checklist to service development and operation processes within the year.
Kakao is also strengthening checks for child and adolescent protection. Since 2025, it has been operating a "Digital Child and Adolescent Protection Checklist," and it plans to reflect AI-related check items in the new checklist by referring to the OECD and UNICEF's "5Cs," a framework for classifying children's online risks. Through this, it will strengthen child and adolescent protection checks in addition to the existing protection checklist operations.
Kim Se-woong, chair of Kakao's AI and Technology Ethics Subcommittee, said the risk review system for the full lifecycle of AI services was built to reflect the perspectives of external advisers and internal organizations. He also mentioned the expansion of AI autonomy and said Kakao aims to build AI services that users can trust and use with peace of mind, under a policy that clearly defines human judgment and responsibility.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=408255
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