The Act promotes AI research, development and use through national planning and coordination. It assigns responsibilities to the State, local authorities, research institutions, businesses and the public, while requiring cooperation with government measures rather than creating a general penalty-based AI regime.
Regulation
Verified record
- Risk classification summary
- The Act does not create risk classes; it establishes policy principles for appropriate and transparent AI research, development and use.
- Requirements summary
- The State must prepare an AI Basic Plan and coordinate implementation. AI-using businesses must pursue appropriate use and cooperate with national and local measures under Article 7.
- Affected entities
- National and local government, research institutions, universities, AI-using businesses and the public within the Act’s policy framework.
- Enforcement summary
- The Cabinet-level Artificial Intelligence Strategic Headquarters coordinates implementation. The Act does not establish an independent general AI regulator or a general administrative-fine regime.
Source-backed duties
Verified legal obligations
Each duty below is tied to an official legal source and identifies who must act.
Provision: Article 7
Pursue appropriate AI use and cooperate with public measures
AI-using businesses must endeavor to use artificial intelligence-related technology appropriately in accordance with the Act’s basic principles and cooperate with national and local government measures.
- Applies to
- AI-using businesses
- Penalty position
- The Act does not attach a penalty to this framework duty.
Provision: Articles 18–28
Prepare the AI Basic Plan and coordinate national implementation
The State must prepare an AI Basic Plan, and the Cabinet-level Artificial Intelligence Strategic Headquarters must develop the plan and coordinate implementation across the government.
- Applies to
- State
- Artificial Intelligence Strategic Headquarters
- Penalty position
- The Act does not attach a penalty to this framework duty.