#44: Professor Seongwook Heo on the AI Landscape & Governance in South Korea

This podcast series details our most recent publication '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Region'. The report provides continuity to the work the AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) published in 2021, but adopts a more in-depth focus on Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and India. The report assesses each country based on the following indicators: best practices; opportunities and challenges; and prospects for collaboration, for the end goal of assessing each country’s unique approach to Trustworthy AI, and identifying mutual grounds as impetus for regional and international collaboration. In this podcast, Dr Heo shares the recent developments in South Korea to advance trustworthy AI. Dr. Heo is an associate professor at Seoul National University Law School in Korea. He holds a Ph. D. in law from Seoul National University. Before joining the faculty of SNU, he served as a judge of Seoul Central District Court in Korea. This conversation covers the recent report published by the AI Asia Pacific Institute '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Report'. *** For show notes and past guests, please visit https://aiasiapacific.org/podcast/ For questions, please contact us at [email protected] or follow us on Twitter or Instagram to stay in touch.