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The transition to labor-friendly artificial intelligence is a challenge for sustainable coexistence between humans and machines
- Exploring how to implement a society that enhances the value of human labor through artificial intelligence.

▲ Session 1: The Need for Discussion on Labor-Friendly AI
- AI and Job Transition: The Need for a Labor-Friendly Response
- Analysis of Future Job Demand Changes Using Patent Data

▲ Session 2: Social Challenges for Labor-Friendly AI
- The Present and Future of AI Adoption: Job Changes, Opportunities, and Challenges Across Industries
- Status and Challenges of AI Talent Development: Focusing on the LG AI Academy Case
- Analysis of AI Skill Demand Based on the Skill Value Chain: Focusing on Domestic AI Online Job Advertisements
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○ Time/Date: 14:00∼17:00, Friday, November 1, 2024, 14:00–17:00
○ Venue: Sportime Melon Hall & Online Live Streaming on KISDI YouTube Channel *https://www.youtube.com/c/KISDIPR
○ Hosted/Sponsored by: KISDI and the Ministry of Science and ICT

The Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI, Acting President Kim Jung-un) will host “the 2024 Symposium on Solutions to ICT-based Social Challenges” on the theme of “The Value of Labor-friendly AI and Social Challenges” at Melon Hall of Seoul Sportime on Friday, November 1 both online and offline.

Held under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and ICT, this symposium will focus on diagnosing the impact of advances in AI on the economic and non-economic value of human labor, and explored the value of labor-friendly AI. Experts from industry, academia, and research in the fields of technology, industry and economy, and social policies will join the symposium as presenters and panelists to discuss the social challenges posed by AI and desirable means of responding to such challenges in order to ensure sustainable coexistence between AI and humans from a multidisciplinary perspective.

During Session 1, which will be centered on the need for discussions on labor-friendly AI, the speakers delivered presentations on “AI and Job Transformation: The Need for a Labor-Friendly Response” and “An Analysis of Demand for Patented Data-based Future Jobs”.

Moon A-ram, a researcher at KISDI, will speak about “AI and Job Transformation: The Need for a Labor-Friendly Response”. In her presentation, she shares the findings of her analysis of how AI impacts job transformation within the labor market, based on the level of exposure to AI by type of job and the “substitutability” indicator, and emphasizes the need for a labor-friendly approach to the introduction and use of AI.
Ha Tae-hyeon, a professor of Sejong University, will give a presentation on “An Analysis of Demand for Patent Data-based Future Jobs” and present a methodology for analyzing the prospects for patent-based jobs.

In Session 2, which will focused on “Social Challenges for Labor-Friendly AI”, the speakers will talk about “The Present and Future of Advances in AI: Changes, Opportunities, and Challenges in Competency by Industry”, “Status and Challenges in the Development of AI Professionals: with a Focus on LG’s AI Academy” and “An Analysis of Demand for Skills Value Chain-based AI Skills: with a Focus on Online AI Job Ads”.

In his presentation titled “The Present and Future of Advances in AI: Changes, Opportunities, and Challenges in Competency by Industry,” Sim Hong-jin, a researcher at KISDI, will explain the findings of his study, in which various types of AI recipients were analyzed, based on the results of a survey on how far AI has penetrated different industries and how job competencies have evolved as a result. Sim also will review various ethical challenges and policy responses associated with the use of AI in various industries including media, IT, and manufacturing.

In her presentation titled “Status and Challenges in the Development of AI Professionals: with a Focus on LG’s AI Academy,” Kim Hyang-mi, a team leader at LG AI Research, will list the qualities and qualifications corporations require of their employees and introduce the AI experts training system run by LG’s AI Academy for its employees and external trainees.

Lee Hyeon-gyung, an associate researcher at KISDI, will share the findings of her analysis of demand for AI skills with a focus on online job ads in Korea, and offer suggestions for a new training model designed to help nurture a broader population of skills value chain-based AI professionals.

The presentations were followed by a wrap-up discussion on “Social Challenges and Policy Direction for Labor-Friendly AI” will be led by Choi Chung, a professor at Konkuk University. Kim Dong-gyu, a researcher at the Korea Employment Information Service, and Jeong Nak-won, a professor at Seoul Women's University will attend the discussion.

The event is accessible both online and offline, and it can be watched on the KISDI YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/KISDIPR.

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