KT and Seoul Launch 'AI Future Camp' to Teach Elementary Students Ethics and Crime Prevention
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KT, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the Seoul Robot and AI Museum, and the Seoul Dobong Police Station held the 'KT and Seoul AI Future Camp' on the 22nd at the Seoul Robot and AI Museum in Dobong-gu, Seoul, for 100 elementary school students. The camp was designed to combine AI technology and educational content, Seoul's public infrastructure, and police crime-prevention expertise to teach not only AI principles and coding but also ethical judgment and digital safety. Students took part in programs including AI Station, AICE Future, exhibition explanations and robot-arm and AI artwork creation, and lessons on AI misuse cases such as deepfakes and digital safety rules.
AI education for children is expanding beyond coding and hands-on technology experiences to also cover ethics and the prevention of digital crime. Against the backdrop of the growing spread of generative AI in everyday life, there is a rising need to teach not only how to create AI, but also how to use it safely and responsibly.
Amid this trend, KT, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the Seoul Robot and AI Museum, and the Seoul Dobong Police Station held the 'KT and Seoul AI Future Camp' on the 22nd at the Seoul Robot and AI Museum in Dobong-gu, Seoul, for 100 elementary school students. KT disclosed the event on the 23rd.
In photos from the event, Yoon Chang-gi, chief of the Seoul Dobong Police Station; Lee Jeong-woo, executive director in charge of KT ESG; Jeon Jae-myeong, acting head of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's Economic Affairs Bureau; and Yoo Man-seon, director of the Seoul Science Center, are seen taking a commemorative photo with student participants on the 22nd.
The camp was organized by integrating AI technology and educational content from a private company, the Seoul Metropolitan Government's public infrastructure, and police expertise in crime prevention into a single curriculum. As a result, it moved beyond the existing experiential education that had focused mainly on AI principles and coding, and expanded to include ethical judgment and digital safety.
The participating students were divided into four groups of 25 and took part in five programs covering AI technology and ethics in sequence. Through the 'AI Station' program, KT's mobile AI experience and education center, they learned how AI technology works and the principles of proper use, while also experiencing basic AI concepts firsthand through the AICE-linked education program 'AICE (AI Certificate for Everyone)' and the block-coding education program 'AICE Future (Future).'
The students also took part in programs at the Seoul Robot and AI Museum. There, they received an exhibition explanation on the theme of 'Thinking Robots and Questioning Humans,' and in the 'Picabot Museum' program, they created artworks using a robotic arm and AI.
The program was designed so that students would not stop at simply using completed AI services. Accordingly, they also experienced how AI and robots can be used in human creative activities.
In AI-based crime prevention education run by the Seoul Dobong Police Station, the students learned about cases of AI misuse, including deepfakes, and picked up everyday digital safety rules.
Children and teenagers quickly master AI technology and are considered major users of generative AI. At the same time, because they are also increasingly exposed to side effects such as misinformation and deepfakes, the importance of teaching not only AI use skills but also critical judgment about outputs and the ability to prevent harm is growing.
Against this backdrop, KT plans to expand the camp into a joint AI education model operated by the private sector, the public sector, and the local community, rather than treating it as a one-off social contribution event. The company envisions combining the experience spaces and expert staff of national and public science museums, KT's AI educational content, and police crime-prevention programs to enhance both educational expertise and credibility.
Lee Jeong-woo, executive director in charge of KT ESG, said that in the AI era, a responsible approach to use is important. He also said KT plans to support children in learning AI technology and ethics together and expand educational opportunities to help cultivate future talent.
Source: IT DAILY · Lee Jae-young
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