The Threat of Harm

ChatGPT has a hidden prompt that begins before users enter their query. It asks the AI to be kind, ethical and helpful to the user. But there is no guarantee the subsequent information or actions taken will be similarly positive. With more large language learning...

Skin and Bones

When Dr Michael BC Rivera was 13 years old, he was captivated by the American television show Bones, about a forensic anthropologist who uses her skills to solve mysteries. Dr Rivera wanted to do the same thing, but in Hong Kong, where he grew up, there were no...

An Historian Who Looks to the Future

Dr Javier Cha is an unlikely combination of Korean medievalist and digital historian, two seemingly unrelated subjects that were brought together by the fact that his medieval research had too much data for one person to comfortably compute on his own. Starting 15...

Living with Loss

Miscarriage is not uncommon – 10 to 20 in every 100 pregnancies end before term – yet it’s still rarely discussed. HKU’s Department of Social Work and Social Administration and the Hong Kong Jockey Club have worked together to launch the Perinatal Bereavement Care...

Art for Our Sake

In 2012, American artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg unveiled a new project, Stranger Visions, consisting of portraits derived from people’s DNA that she had extracted from detritus collected from the street – cigarette butts, lollipop sticks, strands of hair and the like....