# Operators of high-impact AI must prepare user-protection measures and keep records of their safety and trust measures

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

## What the duty requires

Operators of high-impact AI must prepare and implement a plan to protect users, and must prepare and keep documents describing the measures they take to secure the AI's safety and reliability, so that they can be shown to the Ministry of Science and ICT on request. Further items may be added by Presidential Decree, and the ministry may publish guidelines on how to meet these duties.

## What an organisation does about it

Write a user-protection plan for each high-impact system and keep a dated file of the safety and trust measures applied to it.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI governance policy and accountability structure (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-governance-policy-and-accountability
- Technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use (satisfies): 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-user-protection-and-documentation
- **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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