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[20-16] Artificial Intelligence and Social Change from the Integrated Ecosystem Perspective

Date : 2020-12-31 item : Research Report 20-16 P.I : Park Seong-won et al.

[20-16] Artificial Intelligence and Social Change from the Integrated Ecosystem Perspective

 Artificial intelligence technology is expected to lead radical social changes. This study forecasts what social changes could be expected with the development of artificial intelligence, from various perspectives. The study considers work, play, politics, residential environment and climate change as an important integrated ecosystem for human survival, and examines how the development of artificial intelligence affects the integrated ecosystem.

 The labor sector is expected to see accelerated unemployment and job insecurity as a result of artificial intelligence; the play sector is expected to over-connect, continue to compete, and reproduce discrimination. For the residential environment sector, it is forecast that homes will change into intelligent residential service platforms. The political and institutional sectors are expected to see the emergence of surveillance states, court rulings by AI algorithm, and the expansion of political tribalism. In the field of climate change, artificial intelligence technology is expected to be able to forecast mid-to-long-term renewable energy generation, and to control the demand and supply of distributed power generation in cities.

 The uniqueness of the study is that it has gone from the prediction of social change to the presentation of an artificial intelligence utilization strategy that realizes the future preferred by Korean citizens. For example, in the field of climate change, it is expected that artificial intelligence will be used to realize the digital Earth, and that it will be possible to actively respond to climate change at the community level. In the residential sector, it is suggested that the gap between the cities and the rural areas could be reduced through the use of artificial intelligence. In the political field, artificial intelligence increases the possibility of solidifying the checks and balances of power. In the field of labor, social withdrawal rights and the introduction of employee representation were proposed; in the field of play, the strengthening of citizens’ technology literacy and the regulation of biased algorithms were discussed.

 In addition, this report discusses the following four major problems from the social impact of artificial intelligence, derived through an artificial intelligence seminar held 20 times at the National Assembly: whether it is appropriate to give artificial intelligence autonomy; the possibility of equal collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence; the biases of artificial intelligence algorithms; the explainable artificial intelligence, and the more transparent artificial intelligence. We discussed these issues and examined the role of the National Assembly in resolving the problems mentioned above.