Humans, AI should co-exist in new world order

SEOUL, September 9 ------ A new world order is needed where humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can truly co-exist.

At the 27th World Knowledge Forum (WKF), Cho Jeong Sik, Speaker of the National Assembly, said AI is becoming a tool of a new civilization, transcending the boundaries of technology and changing the way people work and live.

“At the same time, it is confronting us with ethical and social challenges such as job losses, growing inequality, and human alienation,” he added. “What determines the level of a civilization is not how fast or how far technology advances, but whom it is for. Just as humanity advanced its civilization by learning how to harness Prometheus’ fire, AI must likewise be a tool to expand human potential, not a technology that replaces people,” Cho stressed.

“The fire that Prometheus gave in myth was a torch of civilization that lit up the darkness, but at the same time, it carried the risk of reducing everything to ashes. Today, we are once again facing a Promethean Moment,” he said. “Ensuring that technological progress leads to human dignity and mutual coexistence — that is the era of Co-Intelligence that we must build together,” Cho added. He assured that the National Assembly will work to ensure that the AI era is centered on the value of coexistence with humanity.

Cho said they will meticulously design the institutional framework to foster industry through innovation, ensure the safety and reliability of AI, and make sure its benefits translate into opportunities for all.

Diffusion

Dr. Chang Dae-whan, founder of the WKF and chairman of the Maekyung Media Group, cited a White House strategic report called “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan” which outlined the potential of AI as “the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and the Information Revolution all happening at once.”

“In other words, it means we are now facing, all at once, the great transformations that unfolded one by one over the past few centuries. He emphasized that it is not the moment of invention that will determine the future of the AI revolution. “In the end, the outcome hinges on diffusion — on how deeply AI takes root across our society,” Chang said. It is for this reason that Maekyung Media recently declared its vision of “AI Native Korea.” “The true battleground is not the technology itself. It is diffusion,” Chang said.

With AI permeating every sector of Korea’s economy and society, Chang said: “We must create a new order in which humans and AI can truly coexist.” “Humans use AI to broaden the horizons of their thinking, while AI operates within the norms set by humans. That is what I call ‘Co-Intelligence’,” he added.

Regulating AI

Former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning Schmidt said regulating AI is more complex than regulating social media. “I think it's super difficult, but I think that's why, I try to say that we have, in human history, we have actually managed to regulate certain things like nuclear non-proliferation. We've had maritime agreements about how you use the seas. So it's not beyond human capacity to do that,” she stressed.

She called on world leaders to come together to regulate AI or to put in place an oversight into the AI systems.

Source: mb.com.ph