Hong Kong must wake up to the cold hard geopolitics of AI
Such rhetoric ultimately does little to capture how AI filters into the ordinary workings of a city like Hong Kong.The geopolitics of AI are no longer abstract. They are beginning to shape who can use which tools – and on what terms.Over the past few months, two major international banks in the city have reportedly felt the impact. If colleagues in Singapore or New York retain access while those in Hong Kong do not, the city’s position as a global financial hub is weakened.
- ▪Such rhetoric ultimately does little to capture how AI filters into the ordinary workings of a city like Hong Kong.The geopolitics of AI are no longer abstract.
- ▪They are beginning to shape who can use which tools – and on what terms.Over the past few months, two major international banks in the city have reportedly felt the impact.
- ▪If colleagues in Singapore or New York retain access while those in Hong Kong do not, the city’s position as a global financial hub is weakened.
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