SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won delivers a keynote speech at the 2026 ERT Members' Day event at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry headquarters in central Seoul on May 20. [KCCI]
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said that the most valuable type of person in the age of AI will be generalists who can connect humans and AI, not specialists with deep expertise in a single domain.
Chey, who also chairs the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, explained his views on how AI will reshape the ideal worker, the education system and national strategy on KBS1's “Documentary Insight - War for Talent 2” (translated), which aired on Thursday.
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He described the current stage of the technology as “reasoning AI,” which produces answers to the questions asked by humans, and said that an era of “agentic AI,” which makes and acts on its own judgments, will soon replace the former.
