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Artificial Intelligence Translates the Language of Animals
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
The Story of AI Learning to Listen to Whales, Dolphins, Birds, and Bees
Twelve chapters on how AI listens to dolphins, sperm whales, humpback whales, birds, and bees to find rules in their sounds, and what this technology means for its risks and for animal rights. Written in simple sentences a child can read, with verified sources in every section.
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AI Deciphers Ancient Scripts
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Ancient Records Revived by AI
In twelve chapters, this book explains how AI revives records once unreadable, from burned scrolls and wooden slips buried in mud to broken clay tablets. It covers virtual unrolling at Herculaneum, virtual collation of oracle-bone texts, reading Silla wooden tablets, computational analysis of undeciphered scripts, and multispectral archives, with verified references for each chapter.
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Artificial Intelligence for New Materials Design and Rocket Propulsion Engineering
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
AI Potentials, Self-Driving Laboratories, and Physics-Informed Machine Learning (PIML)
Ten chapters on how artificial intelligence is changing new materials and rocket propulsion: atomic simulation, generative models, self-driving labs, high-temperature alloys, metal 3D printing, combustion, cooling design, and engine diagnosis and control. Written without equations, with verified sources in every chapter.
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The Age of Autonomous Scientific Discovery
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
AI Scientists and Self-Driving Labs
This book follows how AI scientists and self-driving labs are changing the way science generates and verifies claims. It covers literature-based discovery, natural-language protocols translated into robot commands, multi-agent research systems, closed-loop laboratories, materials search, the verification gap, chains of evidence, research harnesses, journal ethics, and legal responsibility.
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A New Era of Life Sciences Opened by Artificial Intelligence
Structural Proteomics, Genomic Foundation Models, Autonomous Laboratories, and Global Governance
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
This book is a research volume compiled with artificial intelligence. A human selected the materials and structured the work, while AI models drafted the sentences and cross-checked the facts.
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The Double Structure of Digital Sovereignty
Europe’s Departure from Palantir and the Chains of American Big Tech
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
This is a record of 2026, when European intelligence agencies and defense ministries began removing analytics tools from America’s Palantir. It covers the replacement decisions made by France’s General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), and the Netherlands Ministry of Defense; the incident in which US export controls severed an ally’s ac…
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Artificial Intelligence in Horticulture
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Across five chapters and ten sections, this book examines computer vision for crop diagnosis, harvesting robots and autonomous field systems, smart greenhouses and digital twins, precision irrigation and supply-chain quality control, high-throughput phenotyping, and predictive breeding.
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Artificial Intelligence in Food Crop Agriculture
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Across six chapters and eighteen sections, the book examines digital agricultural infrastructure, remote sensing, crop diagnosis, yield forecasting, precision irrigation, genomics, molecular breeding, agricultural robotics, climate-smart agriculture, and global food security.
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The Future of Forestry and Agroforestry
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Driven by Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation
Across five chapters and fifteen sections, the book follows satellites, drones, LiDAR, digital twins, forest-specific language models, wildfire and pest forecasting, forestry robotics, agroforestry, timber traceability, and forest carbon markets.
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Smart Livestock Farming: AI Enters the Barn
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Sensors listen, cameras watch, and artificial intelligence helps farmers decide.
Across five chapters and fifteen sections, the book follows precision livestock farming from animal health and reproduction to robotic milking, virtual fencing, digital twins, methane reduction, welfare, and data ownership.
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Han Dong-hoon, Busan Buk-gu Gap: A Record of the 100 Days Before and After the Election (Mar. 26-Jul. 3, 2026)
Kim Kyung-jin
Table of Contents and 13 sections
From March 26 to July 3, 2026, this record follows the spring after expulsion, the Busan Buk-gu Gap by-election, victory as an independent, and the first bill submitted in the National Assembly.
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Artificial Intelligence and Medicine
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
AI in clinical care, hospitals, education, and research
AI in medical imaging, risk prediction, treatment planning, hospital operations, education, and research, with patient safety, privacy, and accountability.
[AI Library] Preface: A Defense Future Redefined by AI
Military Artificial Intelligence
Preface: A Defense Future Redefined by AI
Kim Kyung-jin and Kim Won-tae
The Key Variable Reshaping War Paradigms and the Security Landscape
AI Defense Is an 'Essential Element' for National Survival and the Future
We are examining from multiple angles the sweeping changes that artificial intelligence (AI)—a vast technological revolution—is poised to bring across every field. AI is becoming the eyes and ears of the battlefield, cutting through the flood of information to identify what matters most. It assists commanders in reaching faster and more accurate decisions, carries out dangerous missions in place of human soldiers, and defends the invisible domain of cyberspace, extending its reach across every dimension of national defense. AI has moved beyond mere technological advancement to fundamentally reshape the very paradigm of warfare itself, emerging as the decisive variable that will determine victory or defeat on the battlefields of the future.
The security realities surrounding the Korean Peninsula pose ever weightier questions for us. The Republic of Korea faces a sharp decline in the pool of available military personnel, driven by a historically unprecedented combination of low birth rates and an aging population. As maintaining an army of the same scale as in the past grows increasingly difficult, the question of how to sustain an efficient and powerful defense capability can no longer be deferred.
Competition between the United States and China over technological supremacy continues to intensify, placing the Republic of Korea in a position where it must find a diplomatic and security balance between the two great powers. China's rapid advancement of AI capabilities right on our doorstep presents both a challenge and a potential threat. North Korea, meanwhile, has not abandoned its nuclear weapons and continues to steadily build up its conventional military strength and specialized capabilities—including cyberattacks and drones—perpetuating instability across the Korean Peninsula.
AI-Based Unmanned Systems, Autonomous Systems,
The Inevitable Introduction of Intelligent Command-and-Control Systems
In a challenging security environment, AI technology in defense has become not a matter of choice but an essential condition for survival and the future. To overcome the limits of a shrinking military manpower pool and to sustain and improve combat effectiveness, the adoption of AI-driven unmanned systems, autonomous systems, and intelligent command-and-control systems is unavoidable.
AI will serve as a 'force multiplier' that compensates for insufficient troop numbers, freeing soldiers to concentrate on more critical and essential missions. Strengthening surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities through AI is indispensable for countering North Korea's threats effectively, and will also help secure our strategic autonomy amid the military maneuvers of neighboring great powers. AI holds the potential to raise defensive capabilities to a new level across diverse fields, from intelligence analysis to missile defense and cybersecurity.
Adopting the technology alone, however, is not enough. What we need is to formulate a defense AI strategy best suited to South Korea's security realities and operational environment, and to pursue it systematically. That effort must include bold investment in AI technology development, construction of the necessary infrastructure, and above all the cultivation of specialized personnel who can understand and operate AI systems.
Through social debate and consensus on the ethical questions and legal issues arising from AI's military use, we must establish principles for responsible AI development and operation, and actively participate in shaping relevant international norms through cooperation with the global community. The wisdom to wisely govern and properly use the formidable power of AI is needed now more than ever.
Through this book, we explore the broad spectrum of the military AI revolution. AI will unquestionably become the core driving force of future defense, and it can be both a crisis and an opportunity for everyone. How we prepare for and meet the coming AI era will determine, in no small measure, the shape of South Korea's security landscape.
By taking a balanced approach that fully harnesses the potential of AI technology while effectively managing its risks, we can build a stronger and safer Republic of Korea. The future is not predetermined — it is shaped by our choices and our efforts.
The Two Faces of AI: Opportunity and Threat
Artificial intelligence — AI (Artificial Intelligence) — is, put simply, a technology designed to let computer programs learn, think, and solve problems on their own, much as a human being does. Today, AI is producing remarkable change in nearly every corner of our lives. In hospitals, it helps doctors diagnose illness faster and more accurately. On the road, cars drive themselves and deliver passengers to their destinations. On factory floors, robotic arms carry out precision tasks, and AI allows people to communicate with anyone in the world even without knowing a foreign language. In all these ways, AI holds enormous potential — in other words, tremendous 'opportunity.'
AI offers remarkable opportunities in the military domain as well. On complex and dangerous battlefields, AI can help human soldiers carry out their missions more safely. AI robots or drones can be sent into hazardous areas to conduct reconnaissance or neutralize explosives. By analyzing vast quantities of information in an instant, AI helps commanders make faster, more accurate decisions — much like having a brilliant staff officer at their side. This raises the odds of success in battle and reduces unnecessary casualties. As AI technology advances, there is hope that it could help manage resources efficiently, anticipate conflicts before they escalate, and ultimately contribute to preventing war altogether and making the world more peaceful.
Just as a coin has two sides, AI is not all bright promise. It can simultaneously pose a serious 'threat' to us. Think of a sharp knife: indispensable in the kitchen, yet capable of causing grievous harm if misused. As AI technology grows ever more advanced, people have begun to worry that AI could slip beyond human control, behave in unpredictable ways, or even inflict harm on human beings.
What would happen if we built 'autonomous killer robots'? Unlike humans, AI has no capacity for emotional judgment. Because it operates exactly as programmed, it could mistakenly attack civilians or misread a situation and trigger an irreversible tragedy. There have already been demonstrations of AI generating tens of thousands of deadly toxic compounds in an instant — a chilling illustration of just how easily AI technology can be turned to destructive ends.
If AI weapons fall into the hands of terrorists or groups with malicious intent, the consequences could be catastrophic. Because AI can make judgments and act far faster than humans, attacks carried out with AI weapons are difficult to stop and can cause enormous harm. Once an 'AI arms race' begins, anxiety across the world will mount and the risk of actual war will rise. AI decisions may move too fast for humans to follow, or a hasty judgment based on faulty information could cause a minor misunderstanding to spiral into full-scale war.
In this way, artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword — offering humanity extraordinary opportunities while also posing grave threats. In the military domain, where human lives are at stake, we must think carefully about how AI is developed and used.
The Complexity of Modern Warfare and the Inevitability of AI Adoption
When we picture wars of the past, we tend to imagine soldiers fighting directly on wide open plains or at sea, armed with spears, swords, or rifles. Strategy and tactics mattered then too, but today's warfare has taken on a complexity and difficulty that is incomparably greater than anything before it.
First, the spaces in which modern wars are fought — the 'battlespace' — have grown far broader and more varied. In the past, combat took place mainly on land, at sea, and in the air. Now, however, two new battlespaces invisible to the naked eye have been added: outer space and cyberspace.
In outer space, where satellites orbit the Earth, reconnaissance satellites are used to monitor enemy movements while communications satellites relay information between friendly forces. If those satellites are attacked or disabled, a military's ability to wage war is severely disrupted. In cyberspace — the interconnected realm of the internet and computer networks — 'cyber warfare' unfolds through hacking operations that paralyze enemy military systems or through the spread of disinformation designed to sow confusion.
Modern warfare thus unfolds simultaneously across not just land, sea, and air, but space and cyberspace as well — five domains in all (multi-domain), each influencing the others in intricate ways. It is as though a commander must play five different games at once, tracking and controlling every situation across all of them.
Second, the volume of information that must be processed in modern warfare has grown immense. Sensors scattered across every corner of the battlefield pour out data without pause. In the sky, reconnaissance satellites and drones capture high-resolution photographs and video; on the ground, radar stations and surveillance cameras track enemy movements. At sea, submarines and warships scan their surroundings with sonar and radar, while cyberspace accumulates records of communications and internet activity. The sheer volume of data generated this way is far too vast for any person to examine and analyze individually. It is like having hundreds of television channels playing at once and being asked to find the important news. Critical information is easy to miss, and if it is not processed in time, it becomes nearly impossible to form an accurate picture of the battlefield.
Third, everything in modern warfare moves quickly. Missiles can travel hundreds or thousands of kilometers in minutes to strike their targets, and fighter aircraft cross the sky faster than the speed of sound. A cyber attack can paralyze a system in the blink of an eye. In this ultra-high-speed environment, a delay of seconds or minutes in decision-making can determine the outcome of a battle. There is often no time for staff officers to convene, deliberate for hours, and draw up an operational plan. Forces must Observe enemy action rapidly, Orient themselves to the situation accurately, Decide immediately, and Act without delay — compressing what is known as the 'OODA loop' to its shortest possible duration.
The complexity of multi-domain warfare, the explosive growth in the information that must be processed, and the speed at which everything unfolds are making it increasingly difficult for human capability alone to keep pace. At precisely this point, the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a matter of choice — it has become an inevitable necessity.
AI can offer substantial help in addressing three problems that exceed human capacity.
Information processing: AI can analyze enormous volumes of data far faster than humans and identify important patterns or anomalies within them. Watching hundreds of television channels simultaneously and picking out the critical news — that is exactly what AI can do.
Speed: AI performs complex calculations and simulations in an instant, helping commanders make decisions rapidly. Within seconds it can calculate which operations carry the highest probability of success and which weapons are most effective to deploy.
Multi-domain integration: AI can consolidate the vast streams of information flowing in from land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace into a single coherent picture. Commanders can grasp the full battlefield situation at a glance and connect operations across each domain to generate synergistic effects.
If rival nations are already applying AI for military purposes, falling behind is not an option. As an AI arms race to develop AI-enabled weapons and systems intensifies, adopting AI is becoming an absolute prerequisite for survival. It is in this context that leaders of countries such as China have declared that "whoever controls AI will control the world."
The complexity and pace of modern warfare have reached a point where human capability alone can no longer keep up. To overcome that gap and secure advantage on tomorrow's battlefield, the adoption of AI technology has become unavoidable. AI is no longer a technology of the future — it already plays a critical role on real-world battlefields, and that role will only grow.
Through concrete examples, readers will learn how AI technology is reshaping the specialized domain of defense. The aim is to broaden understanding of military AI while making this an enjoyable journey of asking your own questions about future technology and society — and finding your own answers.