As debate grows over slowing AI development, speakers at a Seoul seminar said South Korea should raise the pace of responsibility through verification, control and recovery, rather than delay frontier AI. They called for Korea to design AI safety standards needed by both the United States and China, focusing on functional cooperation over value-based blocs. Participants also urged broader AI system evaluations beyond model scores and advocated Korea-specific benchmarks, risk-based management and stronger operational readiness in firms.

South Korea\'s National AI Strategy Committee set a goal for its second year of positioning the country as an irreplaceable core player in the global AI supply chain and a trusted partner. It plans to pursue tasks including national strategic industrialisation of AI data centres, industry and defence AX, and AI security and standardisation, while shifting its operations from subcommittee-led work to project-based execution. It also aims to focus on implementation and performance management as the cross-government AI budget rises.