( September 30, 2026, 03:01 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said Wednesday it would draft a national master plan for establishing an artificial-intelligence safety ecosystem by the end of this year. The government had been working internally on such a plan but has decided to form a new public-private task force and accelerate the drafting process in response to a significant shift in the global debate over AI safety, the ministry said, without elaborating on recent international developments. The task force will be made up of around 25 experts from the ministry, the Presidential Council on National AI Strategy, the Korea AI Safety Institute, other research institutes and private-sector organizations, it added.The statement is attached (in Korean)....
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