OpenAI said on the 24th that it will hold a mini hackathon on the 25th at the Wooseok Hall of Economics at Seoul National University with the Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-koo Foundation and the Social Innovation Impact Lab (SNU CSI) at the Institute for Social Welfare Research at Seoul National University to solve social welfare issues using ChatGPT Work and Codex.
The hackathon is part of the second core competency training program of the "CMK Social Welfare Innovation Leader Academy," hosted by the Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-koo Foundation and run by SNU CSI. As a collaborating partner, OpenAI will help participants structure problems in the social welfare field and write a product requirements document (PRD), then use the agentic AI features of ChatGPT Work and Codex to build prototypes in the form of webpages or applications (apps).
A total of 30 people, including front-line practitioners in social welfare and undergraduate and graduate students majoring in social welfare, will participate in the hackathon. Participants will be divided into five teams to develop AI-based services to solve problems they have experienced firsthand in the field, such as a tool to support home-visit care records and handovers, a tool to review recovery-oriented mental health case notes, a single-person household life network analysis app, a tool to track changes among education welfare beneficiaries, a shared errand platform for caregivers in hospital wards, and an early risk detection app for older patients being discharged.
OpenAI Korea engineers will support participants on-site by helping set development scope, diagnose errors, improve code and prompts, and check accessibility and safety, assisting them in developing their prototypes.
The outputs created at this hackathon will be refined through team-based action learning projects from Aug. to Oct. Participants plan to advance the solutions while jointly reviewing their applicability and limitations in real social welfare settings, as well as personal data protection and ethical considerations.
Ko Ki-seok, head of policy at OpenAI Korea, said, "The value of AI comes less from the technology itself than from helping people define and solve real problems better," and noted, "This program shows that even front-line social welfare practitioners without development experience can use ChatGPT Work and Codex to turn on-the-ground ideas into working prototypes."