The Korea Artificial Intelligence Association, marking its 10th anniversary, set a key goal of shifting into a private-sector leadership platform that presents technology direction in the AI era and the global order.

The association on May 7 held a "10th anniversary vision declaration ceremony" at the AI Expo Korea venue. It shared a blueprint to lead expansion beyond large language models and generative AI into real-world-based artificial intelligence such as agent AI, world models and physical AI.

The association stressed it has played a bridging role connecting industrial sites, policy, technology and markets by taking part in the enactment of the AI Basic Act and the government policy design process. It said it will pursue four governance systems to turn the new vision into reality.

To that end, it plans to invigorate the Openworld Intelligence Research Institute, the AIDC Promotion Committee, the AI Geopolitics Strategy Forum (AGSF) and the CAIO Forum.

The association stressed the Openworld Intelligence Research Institute will become the central axis for research into real-world-based AI such as world models, physical AI and AGI.

Kim Hyun-cheol (김현철), chairman of the Korea Artificial Intelligence Association, said, "If big tech opened the AI era based on internet data, Korea can open the next stage of AI based on real-world data accumulated by manufacturing sites and cities, logistics, energy and robots." He added, "Going forward, AI competition will shift beyond virtual space toward understanding and solving real-world problems."

He said, "If the creators of AI are humanity and the data that underpins it is also accumulated by humanity, then the fruits should also return to all of humanity." He added, "The next 10 years will be the time of changers. The Korea Artificial Intelligence Association will take the lead so that Korea's AI industry can present new standards of civilization and establish itself as a central platform leading the AI era."