2025 International Conference of the Korean Social Science Research Study Council
27 May 2025
Keynote Speech
Differentiated coworkers, well-regarded participants,
It is an advantage to join you essentially for this crucial celebration of the Oriental Social Science Research Council, and I am honoured to contribute to your prompt representations on the future of governance in a period specified by AI makeover.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping not only our markets, but our cultures and public institutions. It is reconfiguring exactly how public choices are made, exactly how services are provided, and exactly how people involve with their governments. This is a pivotal moment for freedoms. We are witnessing a substantial shift: from reactive bureaucracies to awaiting governance; from top-down structures to vibrant, data-informed ecological communities.
AI enables governments to supply services a lot more efficiently with automation, predictive analytics, and customised interaction. In locations like medical care, public transportation, and social well-being, public establishments are currently harnessing AI-enabled tools to prepare for demands, minimize prices, and boost outcomes. Below in Japan, where our UNU head office are based, expert system is already being utilized to analyse countless government jobs, improving functional performance and solution distribution. [1]
This is more than just a technical change. It has extensive political and moral implications, raising immediate concerns concerning equity, transparency, and responsibility. While AI holds tremendous guarantee, we have to not lose sight of the risks. Algorithmic prejudice can reinforce discrimination. Surveillance technologies might threaten constitutional freedoms. And a lack of oversight can bring about the disintegration of public count on. As we digitise the state, we should not digitise oppression.
In response, the United Nations has actually increased initiatives to construct a global administration style for AI. The High-Level Advisory Body on AI, established by the Secretary-General, is working to attend to the international governance shortage and promote concepts that centre human rights, inclusivity, and sustainability. The Global Digital Compact, backed with the Pact for the Future, lays the structure for an inclusive digital order– one that reflects shared values and worldwide cooperation.
At the United Nations University, we support this transformation through extensive, policy-relevant research. With 13 institutes in 12 countries, UNU is checking out exactly how AI can progress lasting development while making certain nobody is left. From electronic addition and calamity resilience to moral AI implementation in environmental governance and public health, our work looks for to make certain that AI offers the global great.
However, the administration of artificial intelligence can not hinge on the shoulders of worldwide organisations alone. Building honest and inclusive AI systems requires deeper collaboration throughout all markets, bringing together academic community, governments, the private sector, and civil society. It is just through interdisciplinary collaboration, global partnerships, and continual dialogue that we can create administration structures that are not only reliable, yet legitimate and future-proof.
Meetings similar to this one play an important duty in that endeavour, aiding us to build bridges across boundaries and foster the trust fund and cooperation that honest AI governance needs. In words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, “AI is not standing still– neither can we. Allow us move for an AI that is shaped among mankind, for every one of humankind.”
Allow us keep in mind: innovation shapes power, however administration forms justice. Our task is not just to regulate AI, but to reimagine administration itself. In doing so, we can develop public organizations that are extra active, inclusive, and resistant. I really hope that this conference will cultivate meaningful dialogue and brand-new partnerships in that effort.
Thank you.
[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Japan-turns-to-AI-for-help-in-analyzing- 5 – 000 -government-projects