Next year, the National AI Committee will be launched and the quantum technology budget will be doubled < Policy < News < Article text

Next year’s quantum science and technology budget is expected to more than double compared to this year. A National AI Committee directly under the President will also be launched to advance artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

The National Science and Technology Advisory Council (Chairman, President) held a ‘National Science and Technology Advisory Council Plenary Meeting’ presided over by Vice Chairman Lee Woo-il at the President’s Office in Yongsan on the 25th and held three major (AI-semiconductor, advanced bio, and quantum) games containing such contents. It was announced that the changer technology initiative was reviewed and resolved.

The plenary meeting of the National Science and Technology Advisory Council is the highest decision-making body in the field of science and technology. It is responsible for deliberation on mid- to long-term science and technology policies and R&D (hereinafter referred to as R&D) budget allocation and advisory functions on national science and technology innovation and policy direction.

First, for the ‘AI-Semiconductor Initiative’, we will focus on nine major technological innovation tasks and key tasks to support them. Develop core technologies such as next-generation general-purpose AI (AGI) that go beyond the limitations of existing generative AI, and secure lightweight, low-power AI technologies that use less energy. In addition, the plan is to take the lead in AI safety technologies such as deepfake detection technology, which is emerging as a social problem.

In order to achieve a super gap or new gap in AI semiconductors, we will also strengthen AI semiconductor technology innovation and launch the President’s AI Intelligence Committee to gather industry, academia, research, and government capabilities across the entire AI-semiconductor value chain and the overall industrial ecosystem. Check the performance of

We are also promoting the ‘Advanced Bio Initiative’ to become a leading biotechnology country in 2035. Digital biotechnology development, biomanufacturing innovation, biomedical innovation, and solving common human problems have been selected as technological innovation tasks, and talent training, industrial ecosystem creation, infrastructure construction, global cooperation, and laws and systems have been implemented so that the tasks can be carried out without a hitch. We also plan to actively support regulatory innovation efforts through improvement.

In addition, we will strengthen joint research and policy cooperation with leading countries in advanced biotechnology, and prepare a preemptive legal and institutional base and regulatory improvement roadmap for emerging advanced biotechnology.

The ‘Quantum Initiative’ to lead quantum science and technology aims to raise the level of quantum science and technology from the current level of 65% to over 80% by 2030 and expand the number of companies supplying and utilizing quantum technology from about 80 (2022) to 500. plan.

In particular, the budget for quantum science and technology will be more than doubled compared to this year, with a total of 9 key technologies: technologies that will quickly catch up (quantum core technologies), technologies that will lead the world (quantum engineering), and technologies and fields that will pioneer new markets (utilization and services). The plan is to aggressively secure . A bilateral strategy committee chaired by the Prime Minister and including demand ministries and private sector experts will also be formed.

Vice Chairman Lee Woo-il said, “If you are good at the same goals and directions as others, it is difficult to survive in the fierce competition for leadership.” He added, “Now, we are going one step further in what we are good at and becoming a leader, first, pioneering something new in a new area that will change the future.” “Please be a mover,” he asked.