AIGP - Understanding how laws, standards and frameworks apply to AI - Section 2.5

Understand the key requirements of AI-specific laws regarding human oversight, transparency, technical documentation, conformity assessments, general-purpose AI models, and organisational roles.

Describe the key requirements of AI-specific laws, including human oversight mechanisms, transparency obligations, technical documentation, conformity assessments, and rules for general-purpose AI models. Compare requirements under the EU AI Act and the South Korean AI Basic Law.

EU AI ActSouth Korean AI Basic Lawgeneral-purpose AI modelsconformity assessment

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A multinational classifies one of its products as a high-impact AI system within the meaning of South Korea's AI Basic Act and is mapping the substantive duties the Act attaches to that classification, as distinct from the broader duties it owes for any generative output. Which two obligations does the Act most directly impose on the operator of a high-impact AI system? Select TWO.

  • ACarry out measures to ensure meaningful human oversight and management of the high-impact system's operation and foreseeable risks. Correct
  • BNotify and obtain advance clearance from the supervisory authority before each individual high-impact inference is generated for a user.
  • CEstablish and operate risk-management and safety measures across the lifecycle of the high-impact AI system to protect users' rights. Correct
  • DUndergo a third-party conformity assessment by a notified body before the high-impact system may be placed on the Korean market.
  • ERegister the high-impact system in a centralised public EU database before deployment and renew that entry annually thereafter.
High-impact classification under South Korea's AI Basic Act triggers operator duties for lifecycle risk management, safety and human oversight rather than EU-style notified-body conformity assessment. South Korea's AI Basic Act regulates by operator obligation: once a system is high-impact, the operator must put lifecycle safety and risk-management measures and human oversight in place, a different mechanism from the EU AI Act's notified-body conformity route and public EU registration database.

Why A is correct: Correct: the Act ties high-impact classification to duties such as putting human oversight and risk-management measures in place for the system's lifecycle.

Why B is wrong: Tempting because high-impact status implies scrutiny, but the Act sets lifecycle safety and oversight duties, not per-inference pre-clearance of every single output.

Why C is correct: Correct: the Act requires operators of high-impact systems to run lifecycle risk-management and safety arrangements aimed at protecting affected users.

Why D is wrong: Tempting by analogy to the EU AI Act's notified-body route, but Korea's Act relies on operator duties rather than mandatory notified-body conformity assessment.

Why E is wrong: Tempting as it echoes a real registration idea, but the EU database is an EU AI Act mechanism and is not a duty imposed by Korea's AI Basic Act.

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