Gwangju City Hosts Professor Choi Jae-bung's 'Survival Strategies in the AI Sapiens Era'

2024 Last Guest Lecture for Nouns

On the 12th, Gwangju City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 13th that it held the final guest lecture of 2024 titled "Survival Strategies in the AI Sapiens Era" by inviting Professor Choi Jae-bung from Sungkyunkwan University at the City Hall Su-eo Jangdae Hall.

Gwangju City, Gyeonggi Province, held the final guest lecture of 2024 on the 12th at the City Hall Su-eojangdae Hall, inviting Professor Choi Jae-bung from Sungkyunkwan University to speak on the topic "Survival Strategies in the AI Sapiens Era." Provided by Gwangju City, Gyeonggi Province

Professor Choi Jae-bung, a professor in the Department of Service Convergence Design and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University as well as the university’s vice president, is the author of books such as "Choi Jae-bung’s Metaverse Story" and "Phono Sapiens." He is also a familiar lecturer to the public through JTBC’s "Different Class" and CBS’s "15 Minutes That Change the World."

In this lecture, Professor Choi explained the impact of AI technology on our lives and emphasized that instead of blindly following technological changes, it is important to find ways to utilize them according to one’s own life.

A citizen who attended the lecture said, “Through the lecture, I had many concerns about how our daily lives are changing in the whirlwind of the rapidly changing digital era and what kind of education we should provide to children living in the AI era, but I was able to find some answers.”

A Gwangju City official said, “Just as smartphones did in the past, AI is already changing the standard way of life for sapiens,” adding, “We hope this lecture provided an opportunity to gain wisdom to respond to the changing society.”

Meanwhile, the "Guest Lecture Series" is a free program conducted by the city for lifelong learning of Gwangju citizens. This year’s series concluded with Professor Choi Jae-bung’s lecture and is expected to return with even better lectures in 2025.

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