South Korea launches 18 AI-focused universities, makes AI literacy mandatory for undergrads
lmoroney · x · 2026-10-01
Google engineer Laurence Moroney highlights South Korea's sweeping AI education push: 18 AI-focused universities and 15 AX graduate schools launched, with foundational AI now mandatory for all undergraduates and new courses connecting AI to every major. Companies including Samsung are partnering with the graduate programs on real industrial projects.
His takeaway: AI literacy belongs next to writing and numeracy as a baseline skill, while majors still matter — students just need enough AI fluency to use the tools within their field.
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