The Korea Times
The global debate over artificial intelligence (AI) keeps returning to the same anxiety. As machines grow more capable, the warning goes, human relevance will decline. Mass unemployment, the collapse of expertise, the eventual replacement of human judgment — each new model revives the script. Predictions of a world where machines outthink, outwork and outpace their human creators now dominate headlines and policy discussions alike. But the real disruption may be something else entirely. Not human replacement, but the exposure of weak systems. Technological revolutions rarely reward capability alone. Steam power, electricity, the internet and smartphones each transformed civilization, but none produced prosperity automatically. Their gains depended on institutions that could absorb them — governance structures, coordination mechanisms and the ability of societies to adapt under changing conditions. AI will be no different. What it changes is the price of analysis. High-level expertise and judgment, once expensive and slow, are becoming cheap and fast. For centuries, organizations com
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