Overview
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a leading South Korean research university conducting AI infrastructure and governance research.
Agent Energy Study (July 2026)
Prof. Minsoo Yoo’s team — first quantitative agent-energy-consumption analysis under real service conditions (IEEE HPCA 2026):
- Up to 136.5× energy per query vs chatbots; 348.41 Wh per 70B agent query
- 54.5% GPU idle during tool waits; open-source benchmarks released
Age Bias Research (June 2026)
Professor Moon Choi’s team published first quantitative study of age-related stereotypes in conversational AI:
- Model: chatgpt GPT-4o
- Journal: The Gerontologist (DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnaf291)
- Finding: digital-ageism — 60+ portrayed as warm but less competent