An "AI government lab" where public officials can use conversational coding and artificial intelligence (AI) agents to develop prototypes that boost administrative efficiency will open on the 3rd. The government plans to systematically manage development deliverables to identify best practices and support their spread to other ministries and local governments.
The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said on the 2nd that the "AI government lab," which operates on the internet network, will begin pilot operations on the 3rd. During the pilot phase, private cloud services, artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools, open data, and OpenAPI can be used.
Until now, information projects in the public sector often took considerable time from securing a budget to preliminary planning, building, and operation. As a result, there has been criticism that it is difficult to promptly improve manual or simple verification tasks that are repeatedly occurring in the field.
The Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) plans to establish a way to systematically manage development deliverables so that excellent on-site improvement cases do not remain on personal PCs or individual repositories but can be used by other agencies. Specifically, it will integrate and manage source code and prompts through the "public development deliverables repository (public GitLab)."
Next year, the government plans to build an AI lab on the government work network as well. An official at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) said, "We plan to provide an environment where programs can be created to streamline assigned tasks by broadly utilizing internal administrative materials such as institution-specific work data, laws and guidelines, work manuals, and civil complaint cases, or where task-specific artificial intelligence (AI) agents can be stably developed to provide close support for detailed tasks."
A "Public AX Portal" will also be newly established. The "Public AX Portal" will be built as an integrated portal that systematically manages the entire process, from identifying tasks to solve social problems and improve on-site work based on input from the public and public officials, to collecting opinions from private-sector experts, selecting best practices, and spreading them to ministries and local governments.
Yoon Ho-jung, Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS), said, "The core of public AX is supporting the public officials in charge, who know best the people's needs and on-site issues, so they can directly implement services using AI," adding, "We will systematically establish a public AX foundation to realize an AI democratic government in which the public can feel the change in administrative services."