Gwangju Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) has recruited faculty members majoring in..

Gwangju Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) has recruited faculty members majoring in philosophy one after one other to strengthen the humanities-based schooling and analysis system in response to the substitute intelligence (AI) period. University centered on science and expertise has unusually expanded full-time faculty within the discipline of philosophy, establishing a basis for convergence schooling linking expertise and people.

The GIST Department of Humanities and Social Sciences employed two new professors, Professor Ahn Kang-hoon and Professor Kang Jin-ho, from the primary semester of 2026. As a consequence, a complete of three full-time professors majoring in philosophy, together with Kim Gun-woo, the pinnacle of the faculty who majored in authorized philosophy and AI ethics, have been established.

Professor Ahn Kang-hoon, who was appointed as an assistant professor, earned a doctorate from Harvard University’s Department of East Asian Language and Civilization. Professor Ahn conducts interdisciplinary analysis specializing in Eastern thought, comparative philosophy, and artwork philosophy.

Professor Kang Jin-ho, who was recruited as a visiting scholar, is a Ph.D. within the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University and is an authority within the discipline of linguistic philosophy who has served within the Department of Philosophy at Seoul National University for 15 years. Professor Kang is in cost of schooling to research the pondering construction and limitations of synthetic intelligence by means of analysis within the fields of language philosophy and AI philosophy.

In specific, “AI philosophy” is a examine that explores the judgment course of and data formation ideas of synthetic intelligence, specializing in understanding the distinction in notion between people and machines. Through this, GIST plans to strengthen college students’ vital pondering expertise and problem-solving expertise.

The growth of the faculty relies on the judgment that human pondering and skill to interpret that means grow to be extra necessary as technological growth accelerates. Kim Gun-woo, head of the undergraduate division, emphasised, “The more technology expands the human domain, the more essential philosophical reflection is.” President Lim Ki-chul additionally stated, “Innovation in the AI era is completed when combined with humanities insights.”