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The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence is shaking the fundamental systems of our society, including party politics, democracy, and the labor market. The Seoul National University Future Strategy Institute, which conducted a survey with SBS on public perceptions of social changes in South Korea in the AI era, has proposed policy directions that our society must prepare for urgently.
Here is a report by Reporter Nam Ju-hyeon.
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[OpenAI's artificial intelligence model has provided a solution to a global conundrum that went unsolved for over 90 years.]
AI solved a long-standing mathematical problem in just 88 hours and easily created a protein structure prediction model that had troubled the biological science community for 50 years.
Already surpassing human speed in information processing and analysis, AI is exerting influence across overall social systems.
First, party politics is facing seismic shifts.
Voters, now able to compare policies easily and quickly and gauge their impacts through AI, no longer blindly follow the stances of their supporting parties on every policy.
The research team at Seoul National University projected that politics will shift toward so-called "politics of personalized preferences," where people are not consistently progressive or conservative on all issues.
Political parties now face the urgent task of strengthening their functions of mediating interests and deliberating alternatives.
Because AI can lead to an excessive concentration of power when combined with the government's vast data, the decentralization and checks and balances of power become all the more crucial.
[Kang Won-taek / Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University: We must reform into a decentralized system that reduces presidential authority, strengthens the independence and power of the prime minister and the cabinet, and boldly transfers power concentrated in the central government to local regions.]
Jobs of the past and future will fundamentally differ.
In a future where contract and temporary jobs will exist in more diverse forms, the research team concluded that new jobs must be found in the realms of "experience," "empathy," and "creativity" that AI cannot easily replace.
That is why job-matching platforms are important.
[Cho Young-jun / Professor, Department of Economics, Seoul National University: I believe countless job categories that we do not know of today could emerge. The current and future generations must discover and create them together.]
If face-to-face contact and meetings decrease due to AI and individuals become isolated, human nature, which seeks meaning in life through relationships, could also be threatened.
The research team advised expanding and revising the Act on Prevention of and Countermeasures against Lonely Deaths into a law that protects overall social relationships, and even conceptualizing a tentative "Basic Act on the Enhancement of Social Relationships."
(Camera: Seol Chi-hwan | Video Editing: Kim Kyeong-yeon | Source: Google DeepMind)
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