The newly formed task force held its inaugural meeting on Friday, bringing together departments specializing in urban development, architecture, and mobility alongside key research institutes and public corporations.
The ambitious AI city concept represents an evolution from existing smart city infrastructure, which has primarily focused on bus information systems, integrated urban control centers with CCTV networks, and smart crosswalks.
Unlike conventional approaches, the AI city model aims to harness vast urban datasets to predict traffic congestion, energy consumption patterns and safety concerns before they emerge. The system would deliver personalized services across multiple sectors to citizens.
The government has allocated 4 billion won (about $2.87 million) in next year's budget for selecting pilot city sites and developing comprehensive project blueprints for the AI-specialized demonstration cities.
"The AI city represents a new future urban model that goes beyond simple technology adoption, where artificial intelligence takes the lead in urban planning and operations to revolutionize citizens' daily lives," said Lee Sang-joo, deputy minister for territorial and urban policy at the ministry.
"Through this task force, we ask related agencies to work closely together so that policy formulation and implementation processes can be organically connected, and we will realize the Korean-style AI city vision by promptly creating results that citizens can experience."
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