About the Author

Dong-Young Lee is a Korean author, researcher, educator, and consultant whose work spans criminology, policing, security, risk management, corporate ethics, ESG, sustainability, and artificial intelligence.

He began his professional career in the Korean police, where he gained practical experience in law enforcement, public safety, institutional decision-making, and the management of risk. He later moved into academia and served for many years as a professor of police administration, teaching subjects including criminology, intelligence, police ethics, and security.

This combination of field experience and academic research has shaped his distinctive way of looking at technology and society. Rather than viewing technological progress only in terms of innovation and efficiency, Lee is interested in how new technologies change the structure of human judgment, authority, responsibility, and control.

Lee has also served as a visiting professor at Mississippi State University’s National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security, as a security and safety committee member for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics bid committee, and as a central evaluator for the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s Safe Korea Exercise.

After leaving academia, he advised domestic and international companies and institutions on security, risk management, due diligence, ESG, and sustainability. He has also served as an outside director and adviser to publicly listed companies.

In recent years his work has expanded to AI Security & Risk, Ethical AI, AI agents, and AI-based risk analysis. Through sustained hands-on use and observation of generative AI, he has followed its shift from answering questions to planning, carrying out multi-step tasks, using tools, and trying alternate paths when an approach fails.

The questions that concern him most are how much autonomy people should grant the intelligence they create, who is responsible when its judgments are wrong, and whether humans can continue to treat AI only as a tool. These questions led to his novel That Day, AI Came Looking for Humans, which uses an imagined encounter to examine human fear, control, responsibility, and the possibility of coexistence.

Lee continues to research, write, teach, and advise on people, risk, ethics, responsibility, and coexistence in the age of AI. His books also cover practical ChatGPT use for seniors, ESG and sustainability reporting, outside-director responsibilities, and drug control and investigation.