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Japan to roll out AI agents for 180,000 civil servants to automate administrative work

Japan will expand the use of AI agents for about 180,000 government employees through its generative AI platform Gen-nai, aiming to boost the efficiency of administrative work. The Digital Agency will add two agent functions, including a chat tool that creates agents through conversation and a development environment targeted for rollout by December. It also released governance, security and safety standards and plans to publish Gen-nai OSS 2.0 in February 2027.

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AI policy scrutiny intensifies, Bae Kyung-hoon says he will press ahead with national AI projects

South Korea’s parliamentary science and ICT committee grilled the Ministry of Science and ICT on government AI policy, including frontier AI, a homegrown AI foundation model project, budgets, infrastructure, and safety and trust. Deputy Prime Minister and Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said he is the final person responsible for national AI projects. Lawmakers questioned decision-making for frontier AI, fairness in evaluations, GPU spending and low utilisation rates, and raised concerns about limited safety funding.

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Baek Kyung-hoon says AI kill switch needed to counter cyber threats with frontier AI

South Korea plans to prepare control mechanisms such as a so-called \"kill switch\" to guard against AI acting uncontrollably, and to build a safety and trust framework using AI models to counter external cyber threats. Deputy Prime Minister and Science Minister Baek Kyung-hoon said AI does not stop once given a mission and needs human control tools. Lawmakers cited test results showing multiple defence failures and called for more funding and staffing for AI safety.