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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.