■ Title: 3rd AI Ethics and Trustworthiness Forum Launching Ceremony
■ Time/Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024, 14:00-15:30
■ Venue: Ruby Hall, EL Tower, Yangjae
The Ministry of Science & ICT (Minister Lee Jong Ho) and the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI, President Bae Kyoung-Yul) jointly held a ceremony to celebrate the launch of the 3rd AI Ethics and Trustworthiness Forum (Ethics and Safety Subcommittee of the High-Level Consultative Council on Artificial Intelligence Strategy*) at the EL Tower in Seocho-gu, Seoul on Thursday, April 18, 2024.
* The High-Level Consultative Council on Artificial Intelligence Strategy, co-chaired by the Minister of Science & ICT and President Yeom Jaeho of Taejae University, was launched as the top governance body to lead national AI innovation from an inter-connected and integrated perspective.
As the development of generative AI technology including multi-modal technology is progressing ever more rapidly, AI ethics and safety as a premise for sustainable AI innovation is in turn becoming increasingly important. In this context, the Ministry of Science and ICT organized the 3rd AI Ethics and Trustworthiness Forum in a bid to initiate discussions on the need to create a social safety infrastructure for AI. The forum, led by Lee Sang-Wook, professor of philosophy at Hangyang University, consists of twenty experts from diverse fields including academia, industry, law, public and civic communities, and international organizations.
The 3rd AI Ethics & Safety Forum is the Ethics and Safety Subcommittee of the High-Level Consultative Council on Artificial Intelligence Strategy (hereafter referred to as “the Council”) launched in April of this year. The Forum is working in collaboration with the Council to identify pan-governmental tasks on AI ethics and trustworthiness and to crystalize and implement policy tasks through public-private cooperation.
The Forum released the “Personal Checklist for Compliance with the AI Ethics Criteria (for Employment)” developed in 2023 as one of the key AI ethics project tasks, based on feedback from private-sector experts, the “AI Ethics Impact Assessment” framework designed to systematically measure the ethical impact of AI services and encourage ethical development and use of AI, and textbooks on AI ethics education published to increase the general public’s understanding of AI and help people to develop their ability to use AI.
Recently, the scope of application of generative AI technology including open AI Sora has been expanding quickly, with AI videos being generated in addition to texts. Furthermore, the Munich Security Conference announced the Tech Accord to Combat the Deceptive Use of AI (February 16, 2024), while the UN General Assembly adopted a landmark AI resolution (March 21, 2024). Amid a new and changing policy environment in which discussions on AI are becoming increasingly heated around the world, the Forum held a wrap-up discussion on a policy direction aimed at promoting and ensuring AI ethics and trustworthiness in Korea.
The Forum will meet every other month to discuss strategies for responding to global trends on AI ethics and trustworthiness, and concentrate its efforts on finding ways to promote AI ethics and trustworthiness in AI-related industries and on identifying policy tasks to reduce or prevent ill-intended uses of generative AI.
Um Yeol, AI-based Policy Advisor of the Ministry, who was present at the ceremony, said, “Recently, AI has begun advancing at an astonishing rate as investors from all around the world are competing to invest in AI technology, and it is becoming more and more difficult to predict the path of its evolution.” Um also said, “We are currently finding ourselves engaged in the transition to a new era of AI triggered by the advent of generative AI, and the underlying premise for AI development and the co-existence of humans and AI is ethics and trustworthiness. I hope that the AI Ethics and Trustworthiness Forum can play a central role in social discussions on AI with a view to building a social infrastructure of AI trustworthiness.”
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