The "Three AI and Data Innovation Bills" sponsored by Representative Kim Hyun of the Democratic Party, a member of the National Assembly's Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, have passed the committee's plenary meeting.

The core of these amendments is to strengthen the utilization system for AI training data built by the government and the public sector, link location information of data scattered across the public and private sectors, and institutionalize the negative regulation principle that swiftly permits new technologies not prohibited by law.

The National Assembly's Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee held a plenary meeting today (September 22) and passed partial amendments to the "Framework Act on Artificial Intelligence Development," the "Data Industry Promotion Act," and the "Special Act on Research and Development."

The amendment to the Framework Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of Reliability mandates linking or providing all or part of AI training data constructed and generated through contribution and subsidy projects of state agencies, the state, and local governments to an integrated provision system.

The amendment to the Framework Act on Promotion of Data Industry and Utilization establishes the legal basis for building and operating an integrated data platform that connects the "location information" of data scattered across various data platforms.

The Ministry of Science and ICT may request public institutions and private corporations to link data location information and provide necessary technical and financial support, and public institutions are required to cooperate unless there is a justifiable reason.

This lays the foundation for searching where needed data is located from a single place.

The amendment to the Special Act on the Promotion of Special Research and Development Zones reflects the negative regulation principle—applying a fast track to demonstrations of new technologies not explicitly prohibited by law—into the regulatory sandbox of special R&D zones.

Following regulatory quick checks, the scope of fast-track application was expanded so that new technologies not prohibited by law can have their demonstration exemptions deliberated and decided by a specialized committee without undergoing deliberation by the Special Research and Development Zone Committee.

Accordingly, an institutional foundation is established to shorten the demonstration exemption designation process, which previously took about 90 to 150 days, down to around 30 to 60 days.

This legislatively supports the national policy task of the Lee Jae-myung administration to "apply a fast track to the demonstration of new technologies not explicitly prohibited by law."

Representative Kim said, "AI competitiveness depends not only on how much data is built, but also on how easily the necessary data can be found, shared, and reused," adding, "We have strengthened the institutional foundation so that AI training data constructed with government funding does not remain confined to individual institutions and projects, but can be utilized in research and industrial fields."

Representative Kim continued, "There is a need to speed up technological innovation and commercialization by transforming regulations so that new technologies can be demonstrated swiftly as long as they are not explicitly prohibited by law," adding, "I will also closely oversee follow-up legislative processes so that AI and data utilization and new technology demonstrations lead to tangible results on the ground."