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Policy2026-06-19 · source-backed
On June 18, South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT signed a memorandum of understanding with Anthropic covering AI's impact on cyber offense and defense, Korean-language model safety, and red-team assessments of autonomous AI agents. It follows February talks between Deputy PM Bae Kyung-hoon and Amodei at the 2026 AI Action Summit and accompanies Anthropic's new Seoul office. The agent-red-teaming clause is the signal worth noting: government safety frameworks are now explicitly targeting autonomous agents, not just chat models. The regulators are catching up to where the security researchers already are.
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