After sleeping, new artificial intelligence (AI) versions are poured out. Even the people of “Hurry,..
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Publish Date: 2026-06-14 03:06:00
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After sleeping, new artificial intelligence (AI) versions are poured out. Even the people of “Hurry, hurry” are too fast to follow. In an era when AI answers any questions right away, people who are accustomed to immediate questions no longer think deeply alone.
Cho Young-hun, a professor of history education at Korea University, said, “The more chaotic times like now, the more time you need to think deeply by yourself. We need to develop ‘historical intelligence’ to judge whether the current change is really new.” It is time to calmly look at the changes that AI will bring, just as historians read numerous historical sources and read the overall flow.
Professor Cho compared AI to a meteorite. Now, the meteorite suddenly falls and the impact is swirling, so it is only when time passes and the dust settles so that you can understand the meaning of the impact. He said, “AI is causing a new phenomenon, but time has to pass to know if it is really a new ‘civilization’, and now no one is torn apart without knowing the substance.”
Professor Cho emphasized, “Historical intelligence is needed in times of confusion like now, especially ahead of the AI era.” This is because macro and future-oriented thinking skills are needed to prepare for “after AI” beyond the wave of AI without being swept away by the AI wave.
Historical intelligence, as he refers to it, is the ability to determine whether the current phenomenon is really new in the long run. It is to distinguish whether only the outer packaging is a different phenomenon or whether it is a phenomenon that will bring about a new civilization through structural change. “People living in the present are always new in the present,” he said. “You need a long-term sense of time to detect changes to not be deceived.”
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