People & DiscourseChey Tae-won (Chairman of SK Group and of KCCI)Statement

Chey Tae-won says AI is still a 4-year-old we must work with and feed data now

Said at the KCCI Jeju Forum that AI is still a 4-year-old child, and that we must start working with it and feeding it data now — arguing that if adoption is put off, competitors' AI will gain a stronger competitive edge

Why it matters

Directly rebuts the wait-before-adopting view in Korean business circles' AI discourse, and puts forward a framing of competition over feeding in data

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Pressv.daum.nethttps://v.daum.net/v/20260715222307605

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