00:00Let me get started with the Global AI Hub. Give us an update on where this initiative is and why
00:05Korea needs this right now.
00:09Okay, thank you for your time. And so the Global AI Hub launched in the last May.
00:15And so it is now in the process of preparing the official function in the next year.
00:21So there is the nine UN agencies, including WHO, UNDP, UNHCR, UNEP, every sector of the global system.
00:32They participate in the Global AI Hub.
00:35And so that we can support the Global South, the public-oriented transformation of their social system, empowered by the
00:45artificial intelligence.
00:47I mean, you mentioned various regions around the world. And of course, we know the big players being the U
00:52.S., China as well.
00:54What leads South Korea to believe that it can actually lead when it comes to artificial intelligence in setting rules
01:03for the world, for example?
01:05And how can it transform this power that it already has around semiconductor hardware technology into actual sovereign AI power?
01:16Ah, yes. It is a very important question.
01:20And so current AI economy is based on our positive perspective on the AI economy, which is led by the
01:29expanding AI infrastructure.
01:31And South Korea semiconductor companies are a critical part of that.
01:36But actually, we need, given the rapid cycle of the AI transformation, we need to prepare on the AI social
01:43infrastructure, which can be great, greatly for the AI, emerging AI economy.
01:49So in that case is that the South Korea, we are working domestically on the how to scale up our
01:55healthcare system and social protection and the other social economy with AI.
01:59But this would be much more benefit for our global South country and also even very marginalized countries under the
02:08frazier status.
02:09And then they also need to get this kind of the AI transformation to build their health system gap or
02:18another social protection gap.
02:20So in that case, South Korea, like the other mid-power country, we can provide technical leadership or partnership to
02:28build those technical gaps around the world.
02:31And multilateral system of the UN would be the great, great platform for that.
02:38Representative, today, for example, this weekend, we had these warnings coming from AI executives from the likes of Daria Amadeus,
02:45Alvin, Elon Musk, even talking about the pace and trying to slow down this development of artificial intelligence.
02:52Would that have a meaningful impact on South Korea if we do actually see an effort to try to slow
02:59down this cutting-edge technology?
03:04I think the negative or risk side of the AI transformation need to be slowed down sometimes.
03:11But I mean the positive side of the AI function to build an existing gap in the human intelligence system
03:20around the world, that should be maximized.
03:23So the AI is not only for the industrial or economic matter, and then there are not only the risk
03:32for that.
03:33But more on the, it can be functional to build a health system gap around the world, for example.
03:39So, you know, the number of the doctors in the highly developed countries, and then comparing it with the risk
03:47of a developed country, the number of doctors are more than 100 times the difference.
03:52And so it is very tragic in our system, but AI can fill those kind of gaps.
03:59And so why not we need to facilitate, accelerate those positive functions to fill the social challenge in our world.
04:08It is now possible, and it will be more possible in the next three to five years.
04:13So we just provide a basic fundamental ecosystem in close collaboration with the United Nations.
04:23I mean, you're a physician, so you know the health care system very well.
04:26So I understand what you're saying, but at the same time, the risks around jobs, for example, the doctors that
04:32you mentioned, the diagnosis from actually human beings doing it,
04:36that might even be threatened by the fact that you have this high capability artificial intelligence in South Korea leading
04:43AI through the hardware exports through what you're achieving on that front.
04:48And is there a concern about a growing gap in social and economic divide in society because of AI?
04:58To be speaking with you, and I'm the before I coming to the politicians, and I was the humanitarian physician
05:07working in the resource force setting where the human intelligence system is thinnest.
05:14And in that case, I could see the large of the side effect on the inequality of the human intelligence
05:19system.
05:19So rather than addressing the coming AI risk first, but I would like to fill this existing social system gap
05:27around the world.
05:29And half of the global population still could not access the diagnosis or treatment and et cetera.
05:36And I think if there is a very strong tool and digital capability to be applied to these social challenges
05:47and also inequality of the human intelligence system,
05:50I think it needs to be allocated first and then test and then build a better social ecosystem.
05:57And because the AI will not only change our industry or economy, but also it will change on the overall
06:04global social system.
06:07And so I do believe we need to have some kind of archetype of the new societal system.
06:14And it can be started with the health care system or the other social sector, which have a high demand,
06:21but not much on the provider.
06:25When it comes to building those social and economic safeguards, can it be done without the cooperation of China when
06:34you have this U.S.-China tech rivalry?
06:36I mean, President Trump has already said this week and that whoever wins AI wins, but this actually seems to
06:42be a very much geopolitical technological race than just a matter of technology.
06:50I think it is natural to tell you, there is always the technical or technological or industrial competition among the
06:58country.
06:59But if we can move together on some social evolution using the artificial intelligence to fill the current gap, and
07:09the competition would not be dominant.
07:12And there is more space for the cooperation when we apply AI technology into the more marginalized countries,
07:20of which the people are suffering from the lack of enough accessibility to the social system.
07:28So I don't believe China, U.S., and the other countries, there is a huge negative competition on this application
07:39of the AI into the existing social vulnerability or health vulnerability in the resource poor setting.
07:45So maybe aside from this industrial competition or technological competition, I think there is a way we can cooperate on
07:54using AI for the good public purpose.
07:58So that is our human history.
08:01And there is always competition, but also cooperation on the social sector.
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