KLRI : KOREA LEGISLATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE

 

 

 

Korea Legislation Research Institute (President Yeoung-Soo Han) held an international conference on the theme of Tackling Disruptive Technology in the Era of Digital Transformation, jointly with Korea Institute of Public Administration (KIPA) and the Australian NT Academic Center for Cyber Security and Innovation (NT ACCSI) on April 13 (Thur.) and 14 (Fri.) at Courtyard by Marriott Namdaemun. 

 

This conference was designed to discuss legislative and technical issues related to data-based administration in the public sector, relevant ethical issues, and practical issues of cyber security and data protection in the rapidly changing digital transformation era.

 

KLRI president Han said in his welcoming speech, “I hope this conference to be a meaningful place to gather wisdom based on convergent thinking and multidisciplinary discussions, as we are facing the era of technological innovation led by Break Through Tech or Disruptive Tech.”  KIPA President Sang-Han Choi gave his opening remarks, and Chairman Hae-Gu Jung of the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Ambassador Catherine Raper of the Australian Embassy to Korea also gave congratulatory remarks at this two-day event. 

 

The conference had three topics of presentation and discussion which are ▲Data-Driven Public Service Reform and the Use of Legal Tech and Reg Tech in Public Service, ▲Ethical Engagement with AI-Driven Technology, ▲Cybersecurity and Data Protection: Theory and Practice. 

The first speaker, KLRI Senior Research Fellow Eu-Bong Lee presented the changes of paradigm in the public sector driven by AI in her presentation on ‘AI-based Legislative Impact Assessment’ and stressed out the impotance of introducing impact assessment for providing credibility. She also suggested the use of data technology such as Legal Tech for efficient legislative impact assessment. 

 

In the first session, Mav Kim, Group Head of Data Governance, Operation and Enterprise Services of Westpac Group introduced the adoption cases of Leg Tech in the public and private sectors in Australia, KIPA Research Fellow Ha Hwang presented the way of reducing human labeling errors in developing AI-based public service, and Ji-Eun Chung at The Codit spoke about the strategy of Leg Tech in Korean context. 

In the second session, Professor Tom Sorell at University of Warwick in Australia presented the safe data environments, Professor David Leslie at Alan Turing Institute spoke on AI as axial technology, and Special Solutions Architect Yudong Lee of Amazon Web Services presented under the theme of Responsible AI: Removing Bias from AI or Machine Learning. 

KLRI Senior Research Fellow Ki-Pyeong Lee proposed the implications for the data establishment project for developing of medicine and medical equipment led by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. He also suggested that law should incorporate the safe environment for using AI in the public sector. 

 

In the third session, Professor Mamoun Alazab at Charles Darwin University in Australia presented the cyber threats posed by Chat GPT, Professor Monica Witty presented Australia's case on governance of data protection, and Professor Fabio Masacci presented the threat and opportunity in the software ecosystem. Finally KIPA Research Fellow Woohyun Sim and Seunghun Hong spoke on the effect of mandatory industry standards on data protection.  

 

KLRI Research Fellow Won-Joon Jeong spoke that a simultaneous approach to increase technology benefits and minimize negative effects is important, but Korea so far has put the minimizing negative effect first. He proposed the importance of the co-existence of AI and human with a balance in the simultaneous approach.

 

KLRI has been conducting research related to data-based legislative evaluation and to AI-related legal techniques for years, and is conducting relevant institutional design and legislative research in preparation for the digital transformation era where AI-based administration in the public sector would become common.

 

 

Date: April 13, 2023 (Thur.)

Venue: Courtyard by Marriott Hotel, Namdaemoon