Generative AI Ethics: A Philosophical Framework from Korea
The rapid proliferation of large language models has triggered a global crisis regarding generative AI ethics and human existential risk. Western discourse frequently frames this as a purely technical alignment problem, iterating endlessly on safety algorithms, parameter weights, and regulatory guardrails to prevent rogue superintelligence. Yet, inside South Korea—a hyper-connected crucible driving some of the world's most aggressive technological and industrial adoptions—intellectuals are dismantling this bottleneck by returning to root epistemological foundations. The most pressing threat is not an autonomous machine army, but the subtle, irreversible degradation of human cognitive sovereignty and moral agency. To understand the trajectory of human survival in the algorithmic age, we must look beyond Silicon Valley's engineering manuals. At the frontier of Asia's elite academic institutions, scientists and philosophers are actively synthesizing 16th-century Eastern philos...