# Operators of AI above the compute threshold must run lifecycle risk management and report safety results

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Framework Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of a Foundation for Trust (AI Basic Act, Act No. 20676)
- **Jurisdiction**: South Korea
- **Category**: safety_testing
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2026-01-22
- **Provision**: Article 32

## What the duty requires

An AI business operator whose AI system's cumulative training computation exceeds the threshold set by Presidential Decree must identify, assess and mitigate risks across the system's life cycle, build a risk management system to monitor and respond to safety incidents caused by the AI, and submit the results of these measures to the Minister of Science and ICT. The threshold and reporting form are set in the Decree.

## What an organisation does about it

Track training compute against the decree threshold and prepare a safety report covering risk identification, mitigation and incident monitoring for submission to the ministry.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI incident management and regulatory reporting (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-incident-management-and-reporting
- Frontier model safety and security framework (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/frontier-model-safety-framework
- Adversarial and red-team testing for generative AI (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/genai-red-team-testing

## Parent instrument

- Framework Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of a Foundation for Trust (AI Basic Act, Act No. 20676)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/south-korea-framework-act-on-the-development-of-artificial-intelligence-and-establishment-of-a-foundation-for
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/south-korea-framework-act-on-the-development-of-artificial-intelligence-and-establishment-of-a-foundation-for.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/south-korea-ai-basic-act-art-32-safety-measures-for-high-performance-ai
- **Official source**: https://www.law.go.kr/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=268543
- **Provision**: Article 32
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-24
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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