Prime Minister Han Deok-soo gave an opening speech at the Global AI Forum held at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul on Wednesday.Provided by: Ministry of Science, Information and Communications
Companies adopt Seoul AI Business Pledge for the equal benefit of people
Written by Baek Byung Yeol
Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom and other global AI companies pledged on Wednesday to ensure the safe and sustainable development of AI.
At the Global AI Forum, a side event to the AI Seoul Summit on Tuesday, the companies announced the Seoul AI Business Pledge to promote diversity and inclusion so that everyone around the world can benefit equally from AI technologies. We agreed on that.
“Safety, innovation and inclusion are the priority themes of the AI Seoul Summit and the Global AI Forum, and they are closely linked,” Prime Minister Han Deok-soo said in his opening speech at the event at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Ta. . “Safety is a key determinant of sustainability in the global market.”
The Seoul Pledge was jointly made by 14 companies: Samsung Electronics, LG AI Research, SK Telecom, KT, Naver, Kakao, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, IBM, Anthropic, Adobe, Cohere, and Salesforce.
“The Seoul AI Business Pledge is a voluntary initiative by domestic and foreign technology companies pursuing responsible AI development and profit sharing,” said Lee Jeong-ho, Minister of Science, Technology, Information and Communications. “We will strengthen our collaboration with AI safety research institutes for the responsible development and use of AI.”
The ICT Minister also noted that AI companies agreed to take steps to identify AI-generated content with watermarks and to strengthen cooperation towards developing international standards.
They also pledged to share best practices in safety frameworks and reduce the use of AI-generated content to prevent the spread of misinformation that threatens democracy.
Prime Minister Han Deok-soo, front row center, applauds along with other attendees including Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, front row fourth from the right, and Science and ICT Minister Lee Jeong-ho, front row fourth from the left. The Global AI Forum was held at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul on Wednesday. Yonhap
The pledge is in line with the Frontier AI Safety Initiative agreed by 16 organizations at Tuesday's AI Seoul Summit.
These commitments stipulate that companies will not develop advanced AI beyond human control if they cannot mitigate the risks.
Unlike the AI Safety Summit held in the UK last November, the Seoul Summit and Forum aims to spread the message that developing AI services in a way that leaves no one behind should be a global goal. , he proposed innovation and inclusion as new goals.
In line with this plan, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong announced at a summit on Tuesday that the company will join the international community's efforts to develop safe, innovative and inclusive AI.
“AI won't just bring industry disruption or economic growth — it will fundamentally reshape how we live, work and interact with the world,” the executive chairman said in the video. “We see an incredibly unique opportunity to use this technology for good, but it's also essential that we do so responsibly. As we innovate, minimizing the misuse of AI and maximizing its benefits must be a global conversation.”
Stating that one of Samsung's core values is to “advance humanity through technology,” the Samsung chief emphasized that the company's technology and products will enable humanity to enjoy the benefits of AI.
