[Anchor]
"AI glasses," which have recently sparked controversy after being abused for cheating in exam halls, appeared yesterday (October 23) at a parliamentary audit. Even the deputy prime minister for science and technology was unable to distinguish which glasses were filming, raising growing concerns as they are reportedly difficult to detect even with metal detectors.
Kim Jin-u reports.
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At the parliamentary audit of the Ministry of Science and ICT held at the National Assembly:
Three parliamentary aides wearing black horn-rimmed glasses stood side by side, and a lawmaker asked the deputy prime minister for science and technology to guess which of the three was wearing AI glasses and recording video.
[Lee Jeong-heon / Democratic Party Lawmaker: Which of them do you think is filming this scene right now and sending it to me in real time? Please make a pick.]
[Bae Kyung-hoon / Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT: It is difficult to see clearly from this distance, but perhaps number three...]
[Those are smart glasses, but they are not filming.]
Although the aide was indeed wearing "AI glasses," the LED recording indicator had been covered with a sticker, making it impossible to notice whether filming was taking place.
[Lee Jeong-heon / Democratic Party Lawmaker: Just one small sticker like this can neutralize the LED warning light. A single sheet costs only 2,000 won.]
[Bae Kyung-hoon / Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT: We must establish countermeasures across all relevant ministries...]
Around the same time, "AI glasses" also came under scrutiny at the parliamentary audit of the Human Resources Development Service of Korea.
Criticism followed that although mock drills using radio frequency detectors had been conducted and metal detectors were operated at national technical qualification test sites, such equipment cannot detect AI glasses.
In national qualification exams administered by the agency through August of this year, a total of five cases of cheating using AI glasses were caught, but none were detected by the equipment.
[Kim Tae-seon / Democratic Party Lawmaker: All of them were caught through the eyes and ears of exam proctors. Although five cases were actually caught, you expect there to be far more, don't you? The equipment prepared to catch cheating is practically being used only as a deterrent.]
[Kim Wi-sang / People Power Party Lawmaker: Rather than relying solely on visual inspection, (I believe we must establish) a complete inspection system for eyewear before entering exam rooms or an inspection system capable of operating on site.]
Noting that as many as 470,000 people will take exams including the certified real estate agent test over the next three weeks starting this weekend, the agency announced that it will deploy separate proctors dubbed "AI Inspectors" to exam sites.
(Video by Lee Seung-hwan and Shin Dong-hwan | Video Editing by Yoo Mi-ra | Graphics by Cho Soo-in)
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