2025 International Seminar of the Korean Social Scientific Research Research Study Council
27 May 2025
Keynote Speech
Differentiated colleagues, esteemed individuals,
It is a privilege to join you practically for this crucial celebration of the Korean Social Scientific Research Research Study Council, and I am honoured to contribute to your prompt reflections on the future of governance in a period specified by AI improvement.
Expert system is reshaping not only our industries, but our cultures and public organizations. It is reconfiguring just how public choices are made, exactly how services are delivered, and just how citizens involve with their federal governments. This is a pivotal moment for democracies. We are seeing a considerable shift: from reactive administrations to anticipatory governance; from top-down frameworks to dynamic, data-informed communities.
AI enables governments to supply solutions more efficiently via automation, anticipating analytics, and personalised involvement. In areas like medical care, public transport, and social welfare, public organizations are currently taking advantage of AI-enabled devices to prepare for requirements, decrease prices, and enhance outcomes. Right here in Japan, where our UNU headquarters are based, expert system is already being used to analyse thousands of government tasks, boosting operational effectiveness and service shipment. [1]
This is greater than simply a technical change. It has profound political and moral effects, raising urgent questions regarding equity, openness, and accountability. While AI holds significant guarantee, we need to not forget the dangers. Mathematical prejudice can strengthen discrimination. Security technologies might endanger constitutional freedoms. And an absence of oversight can bring about the disintegration of public trust fund. As we digitise the state, we need to not digitise oppression.
In reaction, the United Nations has accelerated efforts to construct an international governance style for AI. The High-Level Advisory Body on AI, established by the Secretary-General, is working to resolve the international governance deficiency and promote concepts that centre civils rights, inclusivity, and sustainability. The Global Digital Compact, supported through 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 makeover through rigorous, policy-relevant research. With 13 institutes in 12 countries, UNU is taking a look at exactly how AI can progress lasting development while making certain no one is left. From digital incorporation and disaster durability to honest AI release in ecological administration and public wellness, our job seeks to guarantee that AI offers the international excellent.
However, the governance of artificial intelligence can not hinge on the shoulders of international organisations alone. Structure ethical and comprehensive AI systems needs deeper participation throughout all sectors, uniting academia, governments, the economic sector, and civil society. It is just with interdisciplinary collaboration, global collaborations, and sustained dialogue that we can create governance frameworks that are not only effective, but legit and future-proof.
Seminars like this one play an essential duty because endeavour, helping us to build bridges throughout borders and cultivate the depend on and teamwork that ethical AI administration demands. In the words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, “AI is not stalling– neither can we. Allow us propose an AI that is formed by all of humankind, for all of mankind.”
Allow us bear in mind: technology shapes power, but administration forms justice. Our job is not merely to control AI, however to reimagine administration itself. In doing so, we can develop public institutions that are a lot more active, inclusive, and durable. I wish that this conference will certainly promote purposeful discussion and new partnerships because endeavour.
Thanks.
[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Japan-turns-to-AI-for-help-in-analyzing- 5 – 000 -government-projects