# Operators of high-impact AI must ensure human management and supervision

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

## What the duty requires

Operators of high-impact AI must ensure that the AI is subject to human management and supervision, so that people remain able to monitor its operation and intervene in or override its outputs where those outputs may affect life, physical safety or fundamental rights.

## What an organisation does about it

Assign accountable supervisors for each high-impact system and design the interface so they can pause, correct or overrule outputs.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Human oversight design and override procedure (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/human-oversight-and-override

## 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-human-oversight
- **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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