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Guideline on the Responsibilities of High-Impact AI Business Operators (Article 34 of the AI Basic Act)
고영향 인공지능 사업자 책무 가이드라인
Record KR-07
- Issued by
- Ministry of Science and ICT, distributed through the National Information Society Agency (NIA)
- Jurisdiction
- South Korea
- Level · region
- National · East Asia
- Published / adopted
- 2026-01-22
- Language
- Korean
Summary
Guidance on the duties that Article 34 of Korea's AI Basic Act places on operators providing high-impact AI or products and services using it: a risk-management plan; a plan to explain, as far as technically feasible, the AI's final results, the main criteria used to derive them and an overview of the training data; a user-protection plan; human management and supervision of high-impact AI; and drafting and keeping documents that show the safety and reliability measures, plus other matters resolved by the committee named in the Act. It reproduces the decree and notification provisions and appends a document form, a self-check list and a hiring example.
Language
No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Korean text.
Safety topics
human oversightaccountability & liabilitytransparency & labellingevaluation & testingrisk-based classification
Status notes
Published with the Act's entry into force on 22 January 2026 (111 pages). For each duty the guideline reproduces the corresponding article of the technical notification that sets out the detailed measures under Article 34(2): Articles 4 to 8 on the risk-management plan, the explanation plan, user protection, human management and supervision, and documents; its worked example cites the notification as '고영향 인공지능과 관련한 사업자의 책무 고시' without an official number. It explains decree Article 27: operators post the main elements of their risk-management, explanation and user-protection plans and the name and contact of the person supervising the AI on their premises or website, trade secrets excepted, and a using operator that takes over a system from a developer who has taken the measures under items 1 to 3, without significantly changing its functions, is deemed to have taken them. It refers to ISO/IEC TS 42119-2:2025 on AI system testing. The committee in Article 34(1)6 is named only as 'the Committee' in the guideline.
Local copy
Archived. A source changed since the previous snapshot; both versions are kept. Last attempt 2026-10-18 07:41:30 UTC
Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/KR-07/2026-10-12/official.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-12 04:44:01 UTC
SHA-256 cbbd8a304563f879b2a584860481255cfb7b7e2d990fb13916404e306eea104e
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/KR-07/2026-10-18/secondary-2.html
Retrieved 2026-10-18 07:41:52 UTC
SHA-256 e7202dec822390358606c18dd18652f2b6c7dc10f0d11fe0089f08802ba1bfcd
Verification
BAnother official source, such as an announcement by the issuer, confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · alternative-official-url-fetched
Refresh of 18 Oct 2026 under the rule that level A needs the instrument's own text or an official register. Stored and read: NIA's copy of the guideline (nia.or.kr, PDF, 111 pages, stored 12 Oct 2026 and unchanged when the archiver checked it on 18 Oct 2026; the text layer displaces some numbers and punctuation; the cover image shows the logos of MSIT and the Telecommunications Technology Association, TTA) and NIA's notice of 22 January 2026 listing the five guideline files and their revisions (the record's secondary source, copy of 18 Oct 2026, which differs from the copy of 14 Oct 2026 only in the view count). The guideline confirms the title, MSIT as its author, the Article 34 duties, the reproduced decree and notification articles, the annexes and the hiring example. It carries no date of its own (its background section says only that the Act was to take effect in January 2026), so the publication date rests on NIA's notice (its date and the file name 260122). The notice is an announcement and counts as alt-official, so the record is level B until an official record dating the guideline is stored. The notice also says that the posted files are the current versions. No stored file gives the number or status of the technical notification.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 6 field(s) supported.
History
- 2026-10-18verification.level: A → B — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-14notes: Published with the Act's entry into force on 22 January 2026 (111 pages). The gu → Published with the Act's entry into force on 22 January 2026 (111 pages). For ea — The guideline reproduces notification Articles 4 to 8 (pages 17, 30, 41, 53, 59), not only 4 to 6. Removed 'the notification's number and status were not located' (process language; now in verification.note) and the grace-period sentence, which no stored file supports. Added decree Article 27 as explained on page 16.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-14summary: Guidance on the duties that Article 34 of Korea's AI Basic Act places on operato → Guidance on the duties that Article 34 of Korea's AI Basic Act places on operato — Rendered the duties as in the Act text reproduced on page 15 (방안 = plan; 'user-protection plan'). Replaced 'National AI Strategy Committee' with the committee named in the Act: the guideline says only '위원회' (the Committee), and the name differs between the enacted Act and the decree. Shortened the annex list to fit.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-14english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — No English version in the stored copies, and none found in a targeted search on 14 Oct 2026.manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
Citation
Ministry of Science and ICT, distributed through the National Information Society Agency (NIA). Guideline on the Responsibilities of High-Impact AI Business Operators (Article 34 of the AI Basic Act). 2026-01-22. https://www.nia.or.kr/common/board/Download.do?bcIdx=28987&cbIdx=99835&fileNo=23. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level B). Local copy archive/KR-07/2026-10-12/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-12 04:44:01 UTC, SHA-256 cbbd8a304563f879b2a584860481255cfb7b7e2d990fb13916404e306eea104e. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record KR-07.
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