OpenAI will participate as a collaborative partner in the "CMK Social Welfare Innovation Leader Academy" hosted by Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-koo Foundation, the company said Thursday.
The CMK Social Welfare Innovation Leader Academy is an educational program that selects talent among young social welfare researchers and field workers who can grow into next-generation leaders, and strengthens their innovation capabilities to respond to emerging social problems. The program is being carried out jointly by the Chung Mong-koo Foundation, the Social Innovation Impact Lab under Seoul National University's Social Welfare Research Center, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW).
A total of 30 participants were selected for the academy, including undergraduate students in their third year or higher in social welfare-related majors, graduate students, and key social welfare field workers aged 34 or younger with at least three years of experience. Participants will complete two rounds of two-day, one-night residential training at Seoul National University. They will then return to social welfare field sites and carry out team-based action learning projects for about three months.
The curriculum consists of policy design to respond to new social risks such as the increase in single-person households; spatial prescription, which seeks to solve social problems using space; mental health and integrated care; advocacy for legal rights in daily life; and social welfare work innovation using artificial intelligence (AI). Based on these, participants will experience the entire process of defining actual social problems and designing and implementing solutions.
OpenAI plans to hold a hands-on hackathon for these key social welfare talents on the 25th, using ChatGPT and Codex to structure complex social problems and derive actionable solutions.
"AI can be a tool that reduces the administrative burden in the social welfare field and helps practitioners focus more on their core work of caring for people and solving social problems," said Ko Ki-seok, head of policy at OpenAI Korea. "Through this academy, we hope participants will develop the capacity to use AI to solve practical problems in the field."
