Artificial Intelligence New Industry Convergence Forum, Opinion on Creating Jobs with Artificial Intelligence
Order to serve as government innovation hub to share experiences and data

While the outlook that artificial intelligence will replace human jobs is dominant, the view that it will actually increase jobs has emerged, drawing attention.

Experts gathered at the AI New Industry Convergence Forum held at the Pangyo Startup Campus agreed that the number of jobs created by industrial development using AI will be greater than the number of jobs lost.

Lee Seung-min, a researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, said, “We need to look at the issue of jobs related to AI objectively. When the Internet came out, for every job lost, 2.6 jobs were created.” He added, “According to a recent report, in the era of data-centric AI, for every data-related job created, three jobs will be created in the BICT (biotechnology, information and communications technology) field.”

The researcher cited the current lack of personnel to manage data as a specific example. “Just as electricity was combined with motors and used in many products, artificial intelligence, when combined with ICT, will permeate all products in terms of hardware and software.” He explained that if they have their own platform technology, there will be no shortage of jobs due to newly emerging industries.

Cho Jin-woo, a nano-fusion PD at the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology, also said, “New industries that incorporate artificial intelligence will be created. Just because product performance improves, net employment does not increase. “New industries are created and employment increases only when innovative products are developed,” he said, pointing out the current lack of infrastructure and human resources and emphasizing the importance of securing original technology.

Professor Lee Soo-young of KAIST said, “In the future, there will be two types of people: those who use AI and those who cannot. If you are only trying to find the job you have been doing, you should be worried, but if you are ready to follow the new industries that AI will create, you do not have to worry.”

Experts also said that in order to create new industries with AI, the government should act as an innovation hub that can share experiences and data. They said that universities have research personnel but do not know the needs of companies, and companies do not know what kind of technical personnel universities have, making it difficult to create an ecosystem, and they saw the government’s role as filling this gap. They suggested that small and medium-sized enterprises and universities should foster specialized personnel based on economic support and then create and distribute a platform to create jobs.