2025 International Seminar of the Korean Social Scientific Research Research Council
27 May 2025
Keynote Speech
Identified coworkers, prestigious individuals,
It is a benefit to join you practically for this important celebration of the Oriental Social Scientific Research Research Study Council, and I am honoured to add to your prompt reflections on the future of governance in a period specified by AI improvement.
Expert system is reshaping not only our markets, but our cultures and public organizations. It is reconfiguring how public choices are made, just how solutions are delivered, and how residents involve with their federal governments. This is a zero hour for democracies. We are seeing a significant change: from reactive administrations to anticipatory governance; from top-down frameworks to vibrant, data-informed ecological communities.
AI enables governments to provide services a lot more successfully via automation, anticipating analytics, and customised involvement. In locations like medical care, public transportation, and social welfare, public institutions are already using AI-enabled devices to prepare for demands, reduce prices, and boost results. Here in Japan, where our UNU headquarters are based, artificial intelligence is currently being made use of to analyse thousands of federal government jobs, improving operational efficiency and solution shipment. [1]
This is more than simply a technological shift. It has extensive political and ethical effects, raising urgent inquiries about equity, openness, and accountability. While AI holds tremendous pledge, we have to not forget the threats. Algorithmic bias can enhance discrimination. Security technologies may endanger civil liberties. And a lack of oversight can result in the erosion of public trust. As we digitise the state, we need to not digitise injustice.
In response, the United Nations has actually increased efforts to build an international governance design for AI. The High-Level Advisory Body on AI, established by the Secretary-General, is working to resolve the international administration deficiency and promote concepts that centre human rights, inclusivity, and sustainability. The Global Digital Compact, backed via the Pact for the Future, lays the structure for a comprehensive digital order– one that mirrors shared worths and international cooperation.
At the United Nations University, we support this improvement with rigorous, policy-relevant research. With 13 institutes in 12 countries, UNU is analyzing how AI can advance lasting advancement while ensuring no one is left. From electronic inclusion and calamity resilience to ethical AI release in ecological administration and public health and wellness, our work seeks to make certain that AI serves the international excellent.
Nevertheless, the governance of artificial intelligence can not hinge on the shoulders of global organisations alone. Building ethical and inclusive AI systems needs deeper teamwork throughout all markets, uniting academia, governments, the economic sector, and civil culture. It is only via interdisciplinary partnership, worldwide collaborations, and sustained discussion that we can establish governance frameworks that are not only effective, but reputable and future-proof.
Meetings such as this one play an important function because effort, helping us to develop bridges across borders and foster the depend on 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 propose an AI that is shaped among humankind, for every one of mankind.”
Let us keep in mind: modern technology shapes power, but governance forms justice. Our job is not just to govern AI, however to reimagine administration itself. In doing so, we can build public organizations that are much more dexterous, inclusive, and resilient. I hope that this conference will promote significant discussion and new partnerships because endeavour.
Thank you.
[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Japan-turns-to-AI-for-help-in-analyzing- 5 – 000 -government-projects