2025 International Meeting of the Korean Social Science Research Council
27 May 2025
Keynote Speech
Identified colleagues, esteemed individuals,
It is a benefit to join you practically for this crucial event of the Oriental Social Scientific Research Research Council, and I am honoured to add to your timely representations on the future of administration in a period specified by AI transformation.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping not just our markets, yet our societies and public organizations. It is reconfiguring exactly how public decisions are made, how solutions are provided, and exactly how citizens involve with their federal governments. This is a turning point for freedoms. We are experiencing a significant shift: from responsive administrations to awaiting administration; from top-down frameworks to dynamic, data-informed communities.
AI enables federal governments to deliver services more successfully via automation, anticipating analytics, and personal engagement. In areas like health care, public transport, and social well-being, public organizations are already utilizing AI-enabled devices to anticipate requirements, reduce prices, and improve end results. Below in Japan, where our UNU head office are based, artificial intelligence is already being made use of to analyse hundreds of government tasks, boosting functional effectiveness and solution delivery. [1]
This is greater than simply a technical change. It has profound political and moral ramifications, raising immediate questions regarding equity, openness, and accountability. While AI holds incredible pledge, we need to not forget the risks. Mathematical bias can reinforce discrimination. Monitoring modern technologies might endanger civil liberties. And an absence of oversight can cause the erosion of public trust fund. As we digitise the state, we should not digitise oppression.
In feedback, the United Nations has actually increased efforts to develop a worldwide administration style for AI. The High-Level Advisory Body on AI, developed by the Secretary-General, is functioning to address the global governance deficiency and promote principles that centre human rights, inclusivity, and sustainability. The Global Digital Compact, recommended via the Deal for the Future, lays the foundation for an inclusive electronic order– one that reflects shared worths and worldwide participation.
At the United Nations College, we support this improvement via extensive, policy-relevant research. With 13 institutes in 12 countries, UNU is checking out how AI can progress lasting development while guaranteeing no person is left. From electronic addition and calamity strength to moral AI release in environmental governance and public wellness, our job seeks to ensure that AI serves the international great.
However, the governance of expert system can not rest on the shoulders of worldwide organisations alone. Building ethical and inclusive AI systems needs much deeper collaboration throughout all markets, uniting academic community, federal governments, the economic sector, and civil society. It is only with interdisciplinary collaboration, international partnerships, and continual discussion that we can create governance structures that are not only effective, however reputable and future-proof.
Seminars such as this one play an important duty because effort, aiding us to construct bridges across borders and cultivate the trust fund and cooperation that honest AI governance demands. In words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, “AI is not stalling– neither can we. Let us move for an AI that is formed among humanity, for all of mankind.”
Allow us remember: modern technology forms power, yet governance shapes justice. Our job is not merely to govern AI, however to reimagine administration itself. In doing so, we can construct public institutions that are a lot more agile, comprehensive, and durable. I hope that this seminar will certainly promote meaningful discussion and brand-new collaborations in that endeavour.
Thanks.
[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Japan-turns-to-AI-for-help-in-analyzing- 5 – 000 -government-projects