The Korea Telecommunications Operators Association (KTOA) held the 11th AI Future Value Forum on Wednesday at Cellas Hall of the KTOA building in Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, under the theme of AI security and model safety.

The AI Future Value Forum is an industry-academia-research consultative body in which telecom industry experts participate to discuss sustainable development of South Korea's AI ecosystem and directions for policy and institutional improvements.

The forum reviewed security threats and AI safety issues that could emerge in the frontier AI era. It also discussed the telecom industry's response system and policy tasks to build a trusted AI ecosystem.

As the first presenter, Sang-geun Lee (이상근), a professor at Korea University's Graduate School of Information Security, presented technical response measures to address security vulnerabilities in large language model (LLM) and AI agent environments and to secure model reliability, under the theme of AI security in the frontier AI era: new threats and response strategies.

Next, Chang-oh Kim (김창오), group head of the Information Security Office and chief privacy officer at KT, shared response strategies for protecting data across its lifecycle, including management of AI inference attributes, and for complying with global security and personal data standards, under the theme of personal data protection and AI security for an AI transformation (AX) platform company: challenges and international standards.

In the plenary discussion, industry-academia-research experts discussed the telecom industry's role and policy tasks for securing AI security and safety, moderated by forum chair Seong-yeop Lee (이성엽), a professor at Korea University's Graduate School of Management of Technology. Participants agreed that AI transformation can be stably established only if the safety and reliability of AI technology are secured.

Seong-yeop Lee said, "As AI technology spreads across industry, AI security and safety are not a choice but a matter of survival." He said the government and industry should cooperate to further strengthen public-private governance that balances technological innovation with security and safety.

KTOA Vice President Jae-sung Song (송재성) said, "To build a trusted AI ecosystem, it is essential to secure the security of telecommunications infrastructure, which is the core of the national AI highway." He said he would actively support member companies so they can pursue safe and sustainable AI business strategies based on the various expert opinions discussed at the forum.