South Korea's National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy Committee announced major results from its first 100 days since launching in September last year on May 29.

The committee confirmed the 'Korea AI Action Plan' on Feb. 25 after holding more than 100 meetings and collecting 559 public opinions. The plan is a whole-of-government implementation strategy that includes 99 action items and 326 policy recommendations under a vision of becoming one of the top three AI powers.

On the issue of using works for AI training, it agreed on four core tasks after an open meeting with associations and groups and ministerial-level talks involving the committee, the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

In response to a fire and security incidents at the National Information Resources Service, it prepared two fundamental measures, including directions for pushing AI government infrastructure governance and innovation and a roadmap for introducing a system to report, address and disclose security vulnerabilities (CVD/VDP). It will first build 134 disaster recovery (DR) systems this year, and it is pushing private cloud-based DR pilot projects for three key systems including dBrain, the postal information system and Safe Stepstone.

On policy transparency, it disclosed integrated information on this year's government AI budget covering 741 projects across 41 ministries worth 9.9 trillion won. It also agreed with the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to restrict attaching hwp files on government systems such as Onmail, and it is pushing the spread of open document formats such as hwpx and markdown.

To improve communication with the field, it held a series of events including a roundtable on AI transition and the future of jobs, region-by-region roundtables on regional AI transition (AX), and seminars to share AX best practices. The seminars identified and shared private and public cases, including a jeonse fraud AI diagnostic service by real estate platform Zigbang.

On AI cooperation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), it jointly held the Korea-UAE AI Infrastructure and Semiconductor Investment Forum on May 12 to 13 with related ministries. About 30 government and business representatives, including the UAE's deputy investment minister, attended.

Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon (배경훈) said the committee has laid the groundwork for becoming one of the top three AI powers, from setting the action plan to responding to national issues and improving policy transparency. He said it will continue to check and support government-wide AI policies and projects as the national AI control tower and strengthen communication with the field.

The committee became a statutory body in January under the implementation of the AI Basic Act. It operates 10 subcommittees, 2 special committees and 1 task force. Since its launch, it has held about 300 subcommittee meetings, 4 meetings of the chief AI officer (CAIO) consultative body and 2 plenary meetings.