Ryu Je-myung (류제명), second vice minister at South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT, attended the opening ceremony of the AI Policy Center held on Monday and encouraged officials.
The AI Policy Center is a specialised institution that comprehensively carries out work needed to develop AI-related policies and to establish and spread international norms, under the AI Basic Act that took effect in January.
At the opening ceremony held at the Seoul office of the National Information Society Agency (NIA), Ryu urged the center to play a key role in achieving the country’s goal of becoming one of the world’s top three AI powers by serving as a hub that closely links policy and legal systems with the field.
Going forward, the AI Policy Center will carry out tasks including AI policy development and expert technical support; surveys and analysis of the impact of wider AI use; trend analysis to support policy development; and field-by-field forecasting and research into legal and institutional systems.
Jin-ho Lee
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