The Ministry of Science and ICT said on the 30th that it will hold the "ICT regulatory sandbox performance sharing session and regulatory improvement forum" on the 2nd of next month at the EL Tower Gold Hall to discuss ways to improve artificial intelligence (AI) regulations.
The forum will be held in connection with the ICT regulatory sandbox performance sharing session operated by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and after the performance sharing session, which will include an introduction to the ICT regulatory sandbox system and presentations of best practices, an AI regulatory improvement expert forum will be held with industry-academia-research experts participating on three topics, including personal information and data.
At the performance sharing session, marking the seventh year since the system was introduced in 2019, an introduction and results of the ICT regulatory sandbox, which has designated a total of 290 regulatory exemptions, will be presented, and five companies, including "real-time currency-based voice phishing detection service (KT)," an ICT regulatory sandbox designated project that ranked first in the second "excellent proactive administration cases praised by the public" led by the Office for Government Policy Coordination, will present their outcomes and cases.
In the subsequent regulatory improvement expert forum, after presentations on three topics—including regulatory exemption plans for the safe use of personal information, fair use of copyrighted works and data revitalization, and exemption application plans for regulations that hinder the spread of AI—a discussion will be held with designated corporations and participating experts.
Eom Yeol, director general for communications policy at the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, "For innovation and sustainable development of AI, an institutional foundation must be established by improving existing regulations in a safe and trustworthy direction," adding, "While protecting the lives and safety of the public, we will work hard to ensure that, by upholding the purpose of the regulatory sandbox system, which supports the spread of new technologies and services, it can become the institutional foundation for leaping to become one of the 'three leading AI nations.'"