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A profile of South Korea Deputy PM Bae Kyung-hoon, an AI evangelist and a former AI researcher leading lavishly funded programs to make AI ubiquitous nationwide

Deputy prime minister is an unabashed evangelist for the technology even as some fear it could pose catastrophic risks

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