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High-impact AI (Korea)

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Under Korea's AI Basic Act, an AI system that may significantly affect life, physical safety or fundamental rights and is used in a listed area such as health care, hiring and loan screening, biometric analysis, transport or public-service decisions. It triggers risk-management, explanation, human-oversight and record-keeping duties 1.

Developed in
ch. 21, High-impact AI and how it is confirmed
Chapters
ch. 21, AI Laws Worldwide
Contrast with
High-risk AI system
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

3 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

One pattern page uses the term.

  • AI system

    For governance, the object the AI definition brings into scope.

Sources

  1. [1] Basic Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and the Establishment of a Foundation for Trust (Korea AI Basic Act) (Act No. 20676, in force 2026-01-22; Art. 2 as amended 2026-01-20; Arts. 2(4) high-impact areas, 2(7) AI business operators, 33 confirmation, 34 high-impact duties, 36 domestic representative). Korean Law Information Center (MOLEG). 2026-01-22. https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=268543 (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). High-impact AI (Korea). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/high-impact-ai-korea. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026highimpactaikorea,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{High-impact AI (Korea)}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/high-impact-ai-korea}
}