Seoul’s Imported Prophets

New piece (open access) with Logic(s) magazine – on Sam Altman, South Korea, and technological mythmaking across oceans.

“What does the Californian technofuture look like from across the ocean? In South Korea, familiar models of modernization as “catching up” reinscribe Western technological myths as an inevitability, within which imitation is presented as the only rational response. Such ways of thinking preemptively marginalize very real currents of doubt, disbelief, and experimentation within South Korea, stripping away the time and space for asking: What could, and should, “AI” look like beyond the Valley and its narrow, repetitive projects?“