Korea's Presidential AI committee forms a national superintelligence response task force, with 10 priorities due by June
Chosun Biz says the task force will re-read the Korea AI action plan from a superintelligence perspective, drawing in the science, interior, defence, trade and foreign ministries; the committee also approved an AI legislative framework.
Why it matters
The Presidential Committee on AI met for the third time on 6 November, a year after its launch, and shifted from drafting strategy to running seven project task forces. The superintelligence unit reports directly to the standing vice chair and is told to re-examine the top-level Korea AI action plan for the superintelligence era, with 10 reinforcing tasks due by June next year. A separate cyber-resilience task force is to prepare at least three complex-failure and recovery scenarios for AI data centres by March. The committee also approved an AI legislative framework after 477 AI-related bills in about 29 months. Watch the detailed plans due this month and the task forces' start at month-end.
Key facts
- Third plenary meeting held 6 November, chaired by Standing Vice Chair Ha Jung-woo
- Seven task forces; three report directly to the vice chair, including superintelligence response
- Superintelligence TF: ministries of Science and ICT, Interior and Safety, Defence, Trade and Industry, Foreign Affairs
- 10 core tasks to reinforce the Korea AI action plan due by June next year
- Cyber-resilience TF: at least three AI data-centre failure and recovery scenarios by March
- 477 AI-related bills in about 29 months of the 22nd National Assembly, versus 170 in four years of the 21st