An "AI government lab" where public officials can develop prototypes that use conversational coding and artificial intelligence (AI) agents to improve administrative efficiency will open on the 3rd. The government plans to systematically manage development outputs 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, users can leverage private cloud services, AI coding tools, open data, and OpenAPIs.
In the meantime, informatization projects in the public sector have often taken considerable time, from securing budgets to preliminary planning, building, and operation. As a result, critics have noted that it has been difficult to promptly improve repetitive manual tasks or simple verification work that occur on the ground.
The Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) plans to establish a way to systematically manage development outputs so that excellent on-site improvement cases do not remain on individual PCs or personal repositories but can be used by other agencies. Specifically, it plans to centrally manage source code, prompts, and more through the "public development output repository (public GitLab)."
Next year, the government also plans to establish an AI lab on the government work network. An official at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) said, "We plan to provide an environment in which programs can be created to make assigned tasks more efficient by broadly using internal administrative materials such as agency work data, laws and guidelines, work manuals, and civil complaint cases, or in which task-specific artificial intelligence (AI) agents can be stably developed to closely support detailed tasks."
A "Public AX portal" will also be newly built. The "Public AX portal" will be developed as an integrated portal that systematically manages the entire process from identifying social problem-solving and on-site work improvement tasks 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 to support the public official in charge, who best understands the public's needs and on-the-ground issues, so that 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 changes in administrative services."