Lee Cheol-woo, Governor of Gyeongbuk, "Only Creative Public Officials Survive in the AI Era"

At the Executive Meeting, "Administration Must Change"

Urged to "Actively Utilize Chat GPT for Work"

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Koo Dae-sun] Lee Cheol-woo, Governor of Gyeongbuk Province, instructed at the executive meeting on the 21st to actively utilize the artificial intelligence platform ‘Chat GPT’ in work so that public officials can focus on listening to voices from the field and establishing creative policies.

The ‘Chat GPT’ platform is a conversational AI chatbot released by OpenAI. Since its release on November 30 last year, it surpassed 1 million users in just 5 days and exceeded 100 million users in less than 3 months, making it an AI platform attracting worldwide attention.

With the emergence of this unimaginably large-scale platform, it became a hot topic among global CEOs at the World Economic Forum (WEF, Davos Forum) in January, and President Yoon Seok-yeol also emphasized the use of ‘Chat GPT’ in government ministry work reports.

At the executive meeting that day, a demonstration was held on how ‘Chat GPT’ can be practically applied to work. When asked to “write a governor’s speech about the lessons that Jingbirok gives us,” it was automatically generated in less than a minute.

Lee Cheol-woo, Governor of Gyeongbuk Province, repeatedly emphasized, “Administration must change to survive in the era of digital transformation,” and stressed, “Since AI platforms are replacing the traditional tasks of public officials such as data collection and planning, public officials should carry out creative and field-centered administration to focus on solving the core problems.”

He also said, “If the platform is used well, one public official can have the effect of having one secretary,” urging efficient administrative work based on innovative thinking.

Lee Cheol-woo, Governor of Gyeongbuk Province, speaking at the executive staff meeting.

The governor continued, “The frog in the pot does not react to the gradually rising temperature and eventually dies,” emphasizing, “We must calmly face the global changing trends, lead the current government’s policy emphasizing the local era, and drive policy changes in all areas of provincial administration so that 2.7 million Gyeongbuk residents can focus solely on their livelihoods.”

The government held the National Data Policy Committee chaired by the Prime Minister on January 26 and finalized the ‘AI Everyday Life Plan,’ promoting the full-scale spread of AI in all industrial sectors of public areas and citizens’ daily lives. In response, Gyeongbuk Province is actively discovering digital transformation policies.

Before the executive meeting that day, a special lecture on chemical engineering invited Im Soo-jong, a senior researcher at the Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and an expert in artificial language intelligence, to give a special lecture on ‘Chat GPT and AI Utilization,’ also calling for a change in employees’ awareness. The chemical engineering special lecture is a weekly lecture held every Tuesday by Gyeongbuk Province inviting experts from various fields, and this was the 208th lecture.