Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said Thursday that South Korea will launch a sovereign artificial intelligence model specializing in cybersecurity by the end of this year.
Minister Bae Kyung-hoon made the announcement during a policy briefing at Cheong Wa Dae presided over by President Lee Jae Myung. His comments came amid growing concerns over digital security after Washington abruptly imposed export controls on its advanced AI models, including Anthropic's Mythos 5.
"We are pushing to create an AI model specializing in cybersecurity within this year by training our existing sovereign AI model on security-related data," Bae said.
The minister noted that South Korea's current sovereign AI level is not enough to respond to evolving cybersecurity threats helped by generative AI. The science ministry is also preparing legislation that would provide legal grounds to perform ethical hacking on companies without their consent for vulnerability detection under certain conditions.
