An AI apocalypse? Hong Kong’s real challenge is much less dramatic

For many of us, artificial intelligence (AI) started out as something to play with. We asked it to write poems and arrange our calendars; we shared its more entertaining mistakes. Then it became something to believe in: an escape from drudgery, an assistant to every profession, even perhaps the start of a new industrial revolution. Now it is something to fear.The progression has been astonishing. Governments are scrambling to draw up AI strategies, companies are reorganising operations and investors are financing the infrastructure. The world seems to be mobilising at warp speed to join the AI rush, although there is rather less agreement about where we are going.