# Operators of high-impact AI must be able to explain outputs and the main criteria behind them

- **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**: transparency
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2026-01-22
- **Provision**: Article 34(1)

## What the duty requires

Operators of high-impact AI must put in place measures to explain the AI's final results, the main criteria used to reach them, and an overview of the training data, to the extent that this is technically feasible. The duty targets explainability of the system's decisions to users and affected people rather than full disclosure of the model.

## What an organisation does about it

Document the decision criteria and training-data overview for each high-impact system and prepare a user-facing explanation format.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Decision explanation, human review and appeal route (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/decision-explanation-and-appeal-route
- Technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/technical-documentation-and-model-cards

## 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-34-high-impact-ai-explanation-measures
- **Official source**: https://www.law.go.kr/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=268543
- **Provision**: Article 34(1)
- **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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