10 years after AlphaGo, Lee Sedol meets AI again — but not to fight

Former Go champion Lee Sedol will meet artificial intelligence (AI) again on Monday, nearly a decade after his landmark match against Google’s AlphaGo. This time, however, the encounter will focus less on a human-vs-machine showdown and more on collaboration. Lee will work with an agentic AI to create a Go game model together, the event organizer said Tuesday. The event will be held at Ara Hall in the Four Seasons Hotel Seoul — the same venue where Lee faced off against AlphaGo in 2016 in what was widely described as the “match of the century.” Enhans, a startup developing agentic AI systems, said it is organizing the campaign to demonstrate the commercial potential of the technology. Agentic AI refers to systems that go beyond generative AI by setting goals, planning steps and executing tasks autonomously using digital tools. During the demonstration, Lee will interact with Enhans’s AI agent through voice commands to create a Go game model in real time and play a match using it. The company said the event is intended to show how AI, once seen primarily as a competitor to humans,