A jointly developed 'AI legal secretary' service by South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of Government Legislation and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety will be provided to central and local government civil servants from the 14th.

The AI legal secretary is an administrative AI service that helps civil servants quickly review laws and court precedents. It answers legal questions that arise during policy planning, drafting and implementation based on statutes, administrative rules, local ordinances and judicial precedents.

The development used the Ministry of Government Legislation's system for drafting and interpreting laws and the AI and e-government technology of the interior ministry and the science ministry. Civil servants built the service directly without separate specialist developers and completed development in about 1 month.

The science ministry developed the service using a law-information search-augmented generation (RAG) system built on a pan-government AI common platform and a proprietary AI foundation model. RAG is a technology that reduces hallucinations by having AI provide answers based on internal data.

The AI legal secretary includes 60,000 Supreme Court rulings and 240,000 laws and administrative rules. About 50,000 local ordinances from 5 cities and provinces, including Seoul, Incheon, Daejeon, Sejong and Gyeonggi, were also reflected first. Central and local government civil servants can use the AI legal secretary through 'OnAI Lab', an AI chat service on the internal administrative network. The answers provided by the AI are used only as interim review material, not as final legal judgments.

The government plans to expand AI knowledge data in the administrative field and strengthen related support systems so civil servants can directly develop and use AI services needed for their work.

Lee Wan-chul (조원철), head of the Ministry of Government Legislation, said, "The AI legal secretary will increase the efficiency of civil servants' work," adding, "The time saved by civil servants through AI will be used for the people."

Interior Minister Ho-jung Yoon (윤호중) said, "This service is the first case showing the potential of an 'AI democratic government' through public-sector AI transformation (AX)," adding, "We will spread to the entire government an innovation in working methods in which all civil servants directly develop and use AI services needed for their work."

Deputy Prime Minister Kyung-hoon Bae (배경훈), who also serves as science minister, said, "It is significant in that we applied our proprietary AI foundation model to administrative front-line sites," adding, "We will continue to strengthen proprietary AI technological capabilities and expand use across both the public and private sectors to solidify the national AI ecosystem."