2025 International Conference of the Oriental Social Science Study Council
27 May 2025
Keynote Speech
Distinguished colleagues, well-regarded participants,
It is a privilege to join you basically for this vital event of the Korean Social Scientific Research Research Study Council, and I am honoured to contribute to your prompt representations on the future of administration in an age defined by AI makeover.
Expert system is reshaping not only our markets, yet our societies and public institutions. It is reconfiguring how public choices are made, exactly how solutions are supplied, and how residents engage with their governments. This is a zero hour for democracies. We are witnessing a considerable change: from responsive bureaucracies to awaiting administration; from top-down frameworks to dynamic, data-informed communities.
AI allows federal governments to supply solutions more effectively through automation, anticipating analytics, and personalised engagement. In areas like health care, public transport, and social well-being, public institutions are currently harnessing AI-enabled tools to anticipate needs, lower prices, and boost outcomes. Below in Japan, where our UNU headquarters are based, artificial intelligence is currently being used to evaluate thousands of government tasks, enhancing functional effectiveness and service shipment. [1]
This is more than just a technological shift. It has extensive political and ethical effects, raising urgent concerns concerning equity, transparency, and responsibility. While AI holds remarkable assurance, we should not forget the threats. Algorithmic bias can reinforce discrimination. Security modern technologies might endanger constitutionals rights. And a lack of oversight can result in the erosion of public trust fund. As we digitise the state, we should not digitise injustice.
In response, the United Nations has increased efforts to construct a worldwide governance design for AI. The High-Level Advisory Body on AI, established by the Secretary-General, is functioning to attend to the global governance deficit and promote concepts that centre human rights, inclusivity, and sustainability. The Global Digital Compact, supported with the Pact for the Future, lays the foundation for a comprehensive digital order– one that mirrors shared values and worldwide cooperation.
At the United Nations College, we sustain this makeover with rigorous, policy-relevant research. With 13 institutes in 12 nations, UNU is taking a look at exactly how AI can progress lasting advancement while making certain nobody is left behind. From electronic incorporation and calamity durability to ethical AI deployment in environmental governance and public health, our work looks for to guarantee that AI offers the international great.
However, the governance of artificial intelligence can not hinge on the shoulders of international organisations alone. Structure honest and inclusive AI systems requires much deeper collaboration across all fields, bringing together academic community, federal governments, the private sector, and civil society. It is only through interdisciplinary partnership, global partnerships, and sustained discussion that we can establish governance structures that are not just reliable, however legitimate and future-proof.
Seminars similar to this one play an important duty because effort, helping us to build bridges throughout boundaries and cultivate the count on and participation that ethical AI administration needs. In words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, “AI is not standing still– neither can we. Let us move for an AI that is formed among humankind, for every one of humanity.”
Allow us bear in mind: technology shapes power, but governance forms justice. Our task is not simply to govern AI, yet to reimagine administration itself. In doing so, we can construct public institutions that are more dexterous, inclusive, and resilient. I wish that this conference will certainly cultivate significant dialogue and brand-new collaborations because effort.
Thank you.
[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Japan-turns-to-AI-for-help-in-analyzing- 5 – 000 -government-projects