A former Microsoft executive has advised workers to use artificial intelligence to review counterarguments, summarise lengthy documents and organise unnecessary accumulated data, rather than relying on it for creative tasks. The adviser said it is more effective to keep human judgement and use AI to reduce repetitive work than to trust AI outputs unconditionally. He also drew a line between asking AI to sort data and allowing it to automatically send emails or messages.

Four government-funded research institutes under the National Research Council of Science and Technology have not revised internal rules despite an expansion of statutory parental leave, according to lawmaker Hwang Jung-a. The institutes include KIST, the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, the Korea Institute of Energy Research and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. Some rules still count only 1 year, and KIST retains a clause limiting men’s leave recognition. The institutes said they will amend rules and apply changes retroactively.