New KAIST president sets out vision for ‘AI-native’ university

DAEJEON — Bae Choong-sik was inaugurated Monday as the 18th president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. With him come plans to remodel the university for the AI era. Rather than treating artificial intelligence as a specialized field, Bae said KAIST would seek to make it a common language and general-purpose tool across disciplines. From AI-powered classrooms and autonomous laboratories to research in robotics and other forms of physical AI, the vision seeks to change h