2025 International Seminar of the Oriental Social Scientific Research Study Council
27 May 2025
Keynote Speech
Differentiated associates, prestigious individuals,
It is a benefit to join you essentially for this important event of the Korean Social Science Research Council, and I am honoured to add to your timely reflections on the future of administration in an age specified by AI makeover.
Expert system is reshaping not just our industries, however our cultures and public institutions. It is reconfiguring just how public decisions are made, just how solutions are supplied, and how citizens involve with their federal governments. This is a turning point for freedoms. We are experiencing a considerable change: from responsive bureaucracies to awaiting governance; from top-down structures to dynamic, data-informed environments.
AI makes it possible for governments to supply services extra successfully with automation, anticipating analytics, and personal involvement. In areas like healthcare, public transportation, and social welfare, public institutions are currently harnessing AI-enabled tools to expect needs, reduce costs, and improve end results. Below in Japan, where our UNU headquarters are based, artificial intelligence is currently being used to analyse hundreds of government jobs, improving functional effectiveness and service shipment. [1]
This is greater than simply a technical shift. It has profound political and honest ramifications, raising immediate questions concerning equity, transparency, and responsibility. While AI holds tremendous assurance, we have to not lose sight of the threats. Algorithmic predisposition can reinforce discrimination. Security technologies may endanger civil liberties. And an absence of oversight can lead to the erosion of public depend on. As we digitise the state, we should not digitise injustice.
In feedback, the United Nations has actually increased efforts to develop a worldwide administration design for AI. The High-Level Advisory Body on AI, developed by the Secretary-General, is functioning to deal with the worldwide governance shortage and promote principles that centre civils rights, inclusivity, and sustainability. The Global Digital Compact, recommended through the Deal for the Future, lays the structure for a comprehensive electronic order– one that reflects shared values and global collaboration.
At the United Nations University, we sustain this makeover with rigorous, policy-relevant research study. With 13 institutes in 12 nations, UNU is examining just how AI can progress lasting development while making sure no person is left behind. From digital incorporation and catastrophe strength to honest AI implementation in ecological governance and public health and wellness, our work looks for to ensure that AI offers the worldwide great.
Nonetheless, the governance of artificial intelligence can not rest on the shoulders of international organisations alone. Building honest and comprehensive AI systems calls for much deeper teamwork across all industries, bringing together academic community, federal governments, the economic sector, and civil society. It is only through interdisciplinary cooperation, international collaborations, and sustained dialogue that we can create governance frameworks that are not only reliable, yet legitimate and future-proof.
Seminars similar to this one play an essential duty because effort, helping us to develop bridges across borders and foster the count on and collaboration that honest AI administration demands. In the words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, “AI is not stalling– neither can we. Let us propose an AI that is formed among mankind, for every one of humankind.”
Let us bear in mind: technology shapes power, but governance forms justice. Our job is not simply to regulate AI, however to reimagine administration itself. In doing so, we can develop public establishments that are more agile, inclusive, and resistant. I really hope that this meeting will cultivate purposeful discussion and brand-new collaborations in that endeavour.
Thank you.
[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Japan-turns-to-AI-for-help-in-analyzing- 5 – 000 -government-projects