The government will reopen applications to fill the project director post for the AI scientist mission under the K-Moonshot project, which had become vacant. The National Research Council of Science and Technology is reported to have tabled a recruitment plan at a recent written meeting. It plans to run an open hiring process for about two weeks and expects the selected director to start around September. The role became vacant after a resignation citing conflicts of interest.

About 200 economists, big tech executives and AI researchers have released an open letter urging governments and industry to prepare policies for the possibility that AI will replace large numbers of jobs. Led by Stanford Digital Economy Lab, the letter says AI could become far more powerful over the next decade and that institutions and safeguards must be built quickly. It calls for analyzing AI’s economic impact and designing incentives and protections to spread productivity gains while reducing employment risks.