Kim Yong-beom, the presidential chief of staff for policy at the Blue House, said on the 5th that "artificial intelligence (AI) is not a technological revolution but a production revolution," adding that "the role of the state is to build production infrastructure and find ways to distribute."
Deputy Minister Kim posted a Facebook essay titled "AI production revolution theory" that day. He said, "In the processes of research and development and design, software development, new drug discovery, and logistics optimization, AI first carries out countless trials and errors not in reality but in virtual space," adding, "The expense of failure drops sharply, and the time during which capital is bound by material constraints also shortens."
Deputy Minister Kim said, "The most important question going forward is not who designs better AI, but who can produce and operate AI the most, the most reliably, and for the longest time." He also said, "The state is no longer a regulator of the market," adding, "It is a production platform that builds power grids, develops industrial sites, and organizes supply chains."
Deputy Minister Kim said, "In the age of the production revolution, the role of the state is ▲ infrastructure building ▲ reproduction of production capacity (education) ▲ distribution." On infrastructure, he said, "Building power grids, developing industrial sites, and organizing supply chains are the state's job." He added, "In the age of the production revolution, industrial policy is not running the market in its place, but organizing the entire nation as a single production platform."
He added, "Education is not welfare but an investment that reproduces production capacity." He said, "Startups are not a corporations policy but a system that turns more people into agents of the production revolution," adding, "Culture is not peripheral but a factor of production that nurtures creativity, and immigration is in the same vein." He continued, "Attracting top researchers and engineers and securing diverse human resources that sustain society are also part of the production revolution."
Deputy Minister Kim said that distribution, which links the fruits of production back to production, is also the role of the state. He said it is "an investment that connects the excess profits created by the production revolution to the next generation's production capacity and public trust." He added, "Production and distribution do not oppose each other," noting, "Production is the premise of distribution, and good distribution in turn enables even greater production. The state is the entity that designs that virtuous cycle."