The government has decided to promote the use of original video data containing personal information for artificial intelligence (AI) closed-circuit television (CCTV) training as a planned regulatory sandbox task.
The Office for Government Policy Coordination noted on the 13th that it plans to proceed with five planned regulatory sandbox projects, including the use of original video data containing personal information for AI CCTV development, financial network separation regulation relaxation for AI-based financial innovation, clinical trial treatment linkage for advanced biopharmaceuticals, use of imported raw cells in advanced regenerative medicine clinical research, and recycling of smart farm media.
A planned regulatory sandbox is a sandbox model led by the government from project planning to operator recruitment to empirically demonstrate whether the relevant regulations should be improved from a comprehensive perspective. It differs from the existing regulatory sandbox, which grants special provisions only for regulations requested by individual corporations and improves those systems.
Through this planned regulatory sandbox, the government decided to allow the use of local government CCTV data, traffic, fire safety, and other original video data related to public safety after ensuring safety measures.
AI CCTV provides the functionality to track and monitor movements inside the installation location. It identifies individuals' faces and provides alerts about behaviors or incidents, assisting in prompt actions.
Due to such features, there are observations that if AI CCTV had been installed, the incident where Kim Ha-nul was killed by a teacher at an elementary school in Daejeon could have sensed the crisis and prompted rapid rescue actions to prevent the extreme outcome of death.
It is also expected to help in crime prevention and maintaining public order, as the ability to identify criminals is expected to expand through low-quality CCTV video data that makes it difficult to confirm criminal characteristics, by analyzing things like the criminal's gait or physical features, according to a relationship with the Office for Government Policy Coordination.
It has also been decided to allow exceptions for the consolidation with external internet networks so that generative AI and cloud-based applications can be used within the internal work network of financial companies.
Regulations related to advanced regenerative medicine treatment will also be empirically tested in the sandbox. Previously, advanced regenerative medicine treatments could only be applied for after completing clinical research. The government will allow applications for advanced regenerative medicine treatment even in cases where there are 'commercial clinical trial results.'
In addition, it will become possible to import raw cells that are currently restricted from overseas imports for use in advanced regenerative medicine clinical research and treatment.
The path for recycling media (waste lung cancer membranes) used in hydroponics, such as smart farms, into cement sub-materials will also be opened. Until now, media was classified as waste and had been completely landfilled.
A representative from the Office for Government Policy Coordination said, 'We will actively identify regulations that need improvement for the growth of new industries and to enhance the vitality of the people's economy.'