2025 International Seminar of the Oriental Social Science Research Study Council
27 May 2025
Keynote Speech
Identified colleagues, renowned individuals,
It is an advantage to join you basically for this essential gathering of the Korean Social Scientific Research Research Council, and I am honoured to add to your timely representations on the future of governance in an age defined by AI makeover.
Expert system is reshaping not just our industries, however our cultures and public organizations. It is reconfiguring exactly how public choices are made, exactly how solutions are supplied, and how people involve with their federal governments. This is a zero hour for democracies. We are observing a considerable change: from responsive bureaucracies to awaiting administration; from top-down frameworks to dynamic, data-informed communities.
AI enables governments to deliver solutions more successfully with automation, predictive analytics, and customised involvement. In locations like healthcare, public transportation, and social welfare, public institutions are already harnessing AI-enabled devices to anticipate demands, lower prices, and boost outcomes. Right here in Japan, where our UNU headquarters are based, expert system is currently being made use of to analyse thousands of government tasks, boosting functional performance and solution shipment. [1]
This is more than simply a technical shift. It has profound political and honest implications, raising urgent inquiries about equity, openness, and accountability. While AI holds incredible assurance, we should not lose sight of the risks. Algorithmic prejudice can strengthen discrimination. Surveillance modern technologies may endanger constitutionals rights. And an absence of oversight can lead to the erosion of public trust. As we digitise the state, we should not digitise injustice.
In response, the United Nations has actually accelerated efforts to construct a global administration design for AI. The High-Level Advisory Body on AI, established by the Secretary-General, is working to resolve the global administration shortage and promote concepts that centre civils rights, inclusivity, and sustainability. The Global Digital Compact, backed through the Deal for the Future, lays the structure for a comprehensive digital order– one that mirrors shared worths and international teamwork.
At the United Nations University, we sustain this improvement via extensive, policy-relevant study. With 13 institutes in 12 countries, UNU is examining just how AI can advance sustainable development while ensuring no person is left. From electronic addition and disaster resilience to moral AI release in environmental governance and public health, our job seeks to make certain that AI serves the worldwide excellent.
Nevertheless, the governance of artificial intelligence can not hinge on the shoulders of international organisations alone. Building ethical and comprehensive AI systems requires much deeper participation across all fields, uniting academic community, governments, the economic sector, and civil culture. It is only with interdisciplinary partnership, worldwide partnerships, and continual discussion that we can establish administration structures that are not just reliable, however genuine and future-proof.
Seminars like this one play an important role because endeavour, helping us to build bridges throughout boundaries and cultivate the count on and collaboration that ethical AI administration demands. 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 by all of mankind, for all of humankind.”
Allow us keep in mind: technology forms power, but administration shapes justice. Our job is not merely to govern AI, yet to reimagine administration itself. In doing so, we can develop public institutions that are a lot more agile, inclusive, and resistant. I wish that this seminar will certainly cultivate meaningful dialogue and new collaborations in that effort.
Thanks.
[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Japan-turns-to-AI-for-help-in-analyzing- 5 – 000 -government-projects