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Establishment of the Korea AI Safety Institute
인공지능안전연구소
Record KR-01
- Issued by
- Ministry of Science and ICT; institute housed within the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
- Jurisdiction
- South Korea
- Level · region
- National · East Asia
- Published / adopted
- 2024-11
- Language
- Korean, English
Summary
Korea's national AI safety institute (인공지능안전연구소), established in November 2024. It assesses risks that can arise from AI models or systems, researches technologies to prevent and resolve them, and represents Korea in cooperation with AI safety institutes and related bodies abroad. It is to support a safe AI environment and Korean AI firms and to strengthen international solidarity and norms on AI safety. Its offices cover AI safety policy and external cooperation, including national-security AI risks; AI safety evaluation, including risk definition, safety frameworks, evaluations and evaluation infrastructure; and AI safety research.
Safety topics
safety instituteevaluation & testinginternational cooperation
Status notes
Established in November 2024. Since the AI Basic Act took effect on 22 Jan 2026, Article 12 of the Act has given the institute a statutory basis: the Minister of Science and ICT may operate an AI safety institute (인공지능안전연구소) to define and analyse AI safety risks, research AI safety policy, evaluation criteria and methods, and AI safety technology and standardisation, carry out international exchange and cooperation, and support the safety duties of Article 32 (KR-02).
Local copy
Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-14 10:17:15 UTC
Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/KR-01/2026-10-14/official.html
Retrieved 2026-10-14 09:45:47 UTC
SHA-256 d1d06cb8deb8048c17ed5238ca90ef89efe291103b69e98d43922753eea0d542
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/KR-01/2026-10-11/secondary.html
Retrieved 2026-10-11 14:03:26 UTC
SHA-256 3313a0a52d3c4f7f1590b078db1d6c7ab873646d19fd5eb54a44f460a4b174e0
Verification
AThe instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-14 · official-url-fetched
Stored on 14 Oct 2026: the institute's English page 'About the Korea AISI' and its Korean introduction (연구원소개) and organisation (조직안내) pages on aisi.re.kr. They confirm the name 인공지능안전연구소 (Korea Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute), establishment in November 2024, the mission and the three offices with their tasks; they do not give the launch day, and they do not name MSIT or ETRI. The stored secondary copy is KLRI's English page for the AI Basic Act, a JavaScript shell with only the Act's English title. The Art. 12 mandate in the notes was checked against the Act text stored for KR-02. Earlier notes said the institute publishes Korean versions of the International AI Safety Report and frontier AI risk updates (2026); no stored file covers this, so it was removed. Summary rewritten from the Korean pages in October 2026.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-14: 4 field(s) supported.
History
- 2026-10-18related: [{"slug": "kr-ai-basic-act", "id": "KR-02"}] → [{"slug": "kr-ai-basic-act", "id": "KR-02"}, {"id": "KR-03", "slug": "kr-ai-basi — two-way link added: KR-03, KR-05 link(s) to KR-012026-10-18-fix-related-links · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-14english_version: – → {"kind": "authentic", "url": "https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/22", "by": "Ko — The institute publishes its own English pages; the English About page is a stored source of this record.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-14notes: Established November 2024; the exact launch day was not confirmed on an official → Established in November 2024. Since the AI Basic Act took effect on 22 Jan 2026, — Removed the process remark about the launch day (now in verification.note) and the sentence saying date_last_updated reflects the 2026 statutory basis, which was wrong because date_last_updated is empty. Art. 12 is rendered item by item: 'standardisation research', not 'develop standards', and policy research added. Removed the sentence on Korean versions of international reports, which no stored file supports.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-14summary: Korea's national AI safety institute. It evaluates risks of AI models and system → Korea's national AI safety institute (인공지능안전연구소), established in November 2024. — Rewritten from the Korean introduction and organisation pages: 'prevent and resolve' (방지 및 해소), the support and norm-setting aims, and the three offices with their tasks, replacing the earlier unsupported 'divisions' sentence.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
Citation
Ministry of Science and ICT; institute housed within the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). Establishment of the Korea AI Safety Institute. 2024-11. https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/22. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-14 (level A). Local copy archive/KR-01/2026-10-14/official.html retrieved 2026-10-14 09:45:47 UTC, SHA-256 d1d06cb8deb8048c17ed5238ca90ef89efe291103b69e98d43922753eea0d542. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record KR-01.
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