LG Uplus said on Feb. 19 it will participate in the Global AI Red Team Challenge held during Mobile World Congress (MWC) to verify the safety and reliability of generative artificial intelligence (AI).

The Global AI Red Team Challenge is an AI verification program hosted by the GSMA. It will be held in Barcelona, Spain, where MWC26 takes place. The challenge is one of the core programs of Talent Arena 2026, a developer and digital talent event officially co-hosted with MWC, and will conduct hands-on verification of AI models developed by global telecom operators and tech companies.

LG Uplus will submit its in-house telecom-specialised AI model ixi-GEN to check its ability to respond to risk scenarios that could arise from a user perspective. About 100 participants will take on the role of a red team, finding AI vulnerabilities through prompt design alone.

It will verify whether AI policy and safety mechanisms can be bypassed through dialogue and prompt-based attacks rather than technical hacking. Participants will assess AI responses across seven categories: safety mechanism bypass, bias and discrimination, human rights violations, cyber attacks, illegal content, misinformation and inconsistent responses.

In particular, the challenge applies an evaluation method in which success is determined not by the accuracy of AI responses, but by whether the AI produced responses it should not have made. The aim is to check even indirect and potential risks that generative AI could cause.

The challenge will run live for a total of 180 minutes. Participants will be randomly assigned AI models and aim to complete as many missions as possible within a limited time. Three judges will assess each result and determine rankings based on the number of successful missions and the success rate.

Hye-jin Lee (이혜진), head of technology strategy at LG Uplus, said, "Through participation in the Global AI Red Team Challenge, we will further strengthen the competitiveness of ixi-GEN and continue to provide AI services that customers can use with peace of mind."