Bae Kyung-hoon: South Korea's AI-Evangelist Deputy PM — SkimNews
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- Bae Kyung-hoon is South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister and a former AI researcher profiled by the Financial Times for leading lavishly funded national programs to make AI ubiquitous nationwide.
- The profile describes Bae as an 'unabashed evangelist' for AI even as some fear the technology could pose risks, according to the excerpt.
Why it matters: South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister personally champions AI through lavishly funded national programs, giving the technology unusually high-level political backing. The Financial Times frames Bae's 'unabashed evangelism' as defining Seoul's AI strategy — even amid warnings the technology could pose risks that remain unresolved in the public framing.
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