South Korea wants free ‘AI for All’. Is society ready for it?
Por David D. Lee — South China Morning Post – News feed
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Seoul’s roll-out of free, unlimited AI is set to shake up classrooms, careers and crime – for better or worse
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David D. Lee Published: 8:00am, 19 Sep 2026 In Silicon Valley and beyond, the architects of artificial intelligence are increasingly warning about the risks it poses to humanity. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants the industry to slow down . A former engineer at his company, who also worked at its rival OpenAI , told reporters after quitting earlier this month that he was “genuinely frightened” unchecked AI development might mean “we could all die in the immediate future”. Even Geoffrey Hinton , the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the “godfather of AI”, has warned of the existential threat posed by the technology should it escape human control. Concerns about AI run the gamut from autonomous weapons, mass unemployment and machine-driven cyberattacks to deepfake-fuelled misinformation , algorithmic bias and a dangerous overreliance on automation. Select Voice Select Speed 0.8x 0.9x 1.0x 1.1x 1.2x 1.5x 1.75x 00:00 00:00 1x AI-generated voice
