AI rollout to cover quality assessment, traceability and smart livestock farming across 5 areas

Agency adopts 7 ethical principles including human-centeredness, accountability and transparency

'AI is a tool to support expert judgment — final decisions and responsibility rest with people'

Korea Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation President Park Su-jin speaks at the second AX Promotion Team meeting of 2026, held Friday at the agency's headquarters in Sejong. [Korea Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation]
Korea Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation President Park Su-jin speaks at the second AX Promotion Team meeting of 2026, held Friday at the agency's headquarters in Sejong. [Korea Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation]

The Korea Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation plans to apply artificial intelligence across its core operations — including quality assessment, traceability management and smart livestock farming — by 2028. As AI use expands into full-scale deployment, the agency will also establish its own ethical principles covering accountability, safety and transparency.

The agency announced Monday that it held its second AI Transformation (AX) Promotion Team meeting Friday at its headquarters in Sejong to build an organization-wide framework for AI transformation.

The agency plans to roll out AI innovations sequentially through 2028 across five AX areas: quality assessment, traceability management, retail and smart livestock farming, intelligent administration, and AI risk management. It will also explore ways to deploy recently acquired high-performance AI-dedicated servers across departmental operations.

To ensure the safety of AI projects moving from pilot operation into full deployment, the agency will strengthen personal data protection and information security measures. External advisers at the meeting also provided guidance on related measures.

Alongside the broader AI expansion, the agency will establish its own ethical standards. It plans to develop AI ethical principles tailored to its institutional functions, drawing on the "AI Ethics Principles of the Republic of Korea" approved by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Information Society Development Institute on Aug. 21.

The draft ethical principles incorporate three core values — human dignity, the common good of society and the sustainability of humanity. Seven principles are proposed to put those values into practice: human-centeredness, privacy protection, fairness and inclusiveness, accountability, safety, reliability and transparency.

The agency will finalize the ethical principles after incorporating feedback from committee members, and plans to review and revise them regularly in line with advances in AI technology and changes in the policy environment.

"AI is ultimately a tool to support expert human judgment, and responsibility for final decisions and outcomes rests with the institution and the people in it," Korea Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation President Park Su-jin said.

Park added that the agency would "contribute to ensuring that everyone — including elderly and small-scale farmers — can benefit from AI services and to building a sustainable livestock environment," and urged staff to "push ahead with every project without delay so that AI can take root stably in the field, free from security and ethical risks."


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