By Reporter Anna Kim

The 'Paris Digital Vision Forum was held to discuss the direction of digital norms and explore global cooperation with leading European scholars as the establishment of ethical norms for artificial intelligence has become a global hot topic due to the spread of ChatGPT.

President Yoon Suk-yeol has already raised the need for a new digital order and called for the establishment of digital norms through a global public forum at the New York University Digital Vision Forum and the UN in September last year, and has since gradually materialized through the B20 Summit, Dubai Future Forum, Davos Forum, and Harvard University.

The Paris Digital Vision Forum was a continuation of these efforts, especially in Paris, the cradle of the Enlightenment and the birthplace of the Civil Revolution, to discuss digital norms in a three-dimensional way by adding digital, humanities, law, and philosophy perspectives.

Through the Paris Initiative, the President proposed concrete principles for digital norms to establish a global digital order and proposed the establishment of an international organization to establish global norms. In particular, the Paris Initiative is not limited to artificial intelligence, but covers all areas of data and computer capabilities, from the basics to the depths of digital, emphasizing its comprehensiveness to be applicable to countries at any stage of digitalization.

The forum was attended by Professor Marcus Gabriel of the University of Bonn, Germany, who is considered one of the world's leading philosophers; Professor Raja Shatila of the Sorbonne, who is leading the discussion on AI ethics in Europe; and Professor Daniel Andler, a leading French expert on AI humanism. 

In addition, Maurice Levy, former chairman of Publicis, one of the world's largest communications companies, Bernard Berber, a novelist who offers messages from the perspective of science and humanities, and Fleur Pellerin, president of Corelia Capital, the second-generation Korean-American and the first Asian to serve as a French minister, were also present.