South Korea amends AI Basic Act to mandate input from vulnerable groups

South Korea is quietly pushing AI governance into a more participatory direction by hard‑coding vulnerable‑group input into its AI Basic Act. This isn’t about model weights or chip counts; it’s about who gets a voice when systems are designed, deployed and audited. By obligating policymakers to involve people with disabilities, older adults and other at‑risk groups at the planning and data‑collection stages—not just after harms occur—the law tries to move bias mitigation upstream instead of relying on ad‑hoc fixes.