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Hong Kong’s Legislative Council used AI for the first time to summarise a three-day debate on the city’s five-year plan and policy address, the South China Morning Post reports.
Why it mattersLegCo president Starry Lee said the overview identified talent and the Northern Metropolis as leading themes. Debate on improving livelihood protections drew the most lawmakers and accounted for nearly 30 per cent of the coverage, she said. The summary is intended to help lawmakers and government officials grasp the debate’s main points. Useful shortcut or an invitation to argue with the machine’s idea of what mattered?
Discuss: Should AI-generated summaries of lawmakers’ debates be used as an official guide to what mattered, or only as a starting point for human review?
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