Korea AI Basic Act Art. 32: safety duties for high-compute systems
Systems with at least 10^26 FLOP of cumulative training compute, built with the most advanced technology and posing broad and serious risk (Decree Art. 24), identify, assess and mitigate risks across the lifecycle and report the results to MSIT
AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32. Drawn from chapter 08.
Text alternative
- Clause: Korea AI Act, Art. 32.
- Duty holder: Operators of qualifying high-compute….
- Applies from: 2026-01-22, Grace period.
- Artefact: Lifecycle risk register.
- Layers: Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05.
- Evidence record: Evidence record v1.
- Record schema: Evidence record.
- No crosswalk topic files this clause yet.
- Id
AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32- Instrument
- South Korea AI Basic Act law
- Clause
- Art. 32
- In scope
- Operators of qualifying high-compute systems
- Authority
- MSIT
- Applies from
- Grace period · MSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidance period of at least one year, while the duty applies
The artefact that evidences it
Lifecycle risk register; safety-incident monitoring; results report to MSIT.
- L3 Evals & Red Teaming as Evidence
- L4 Runtime Controls & Observability
- L5 Assurance & Continuous Compliance
Patterns that build it
No pattern in the catalogue names this clause on its "Maps to" line yet; the artefact above is the engineering answer.
Source
Chapter 08, section South Korea, article by article, checked against its sources on the review date above.
Machine-readable
- This obligation:
/api/v1/obligations/aige-obl-kr-art32.json - The register:
/api/v1/obligations.json· CSV - Schema and stability promise: open data and API
Cite this obligation
García Aibar, J. (2026). Korea AI Basic Act Art. 32: safety duties for high-compute systems (AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-kr-art32. CC BY 4.0
BibTeX
@misc{aige2026obligation,
author = {Jorge García Aibar},
title = {{Korea AI Basic Act Art. 32: safety duties for high-compute systems (AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32)}},
howpublished = {In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge},
year = {2026},
version = {0.5.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
url = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-kr-art32},
note = {Version 0.5.0}
}