https://www.scmp.com/rss/515136/feed Dr Jonathan Johnson is a research assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. In the Department of Humanities, he helps the Faith and Global Engagement programme, lectures for Common Core, and researches aesthetics and values. His recent writings in philosophy and religion have been published in Brill’s Citizens of Two Kingdoms and in the journal Philosophy East and West. He also helps as a pastor of Island Baptist Church. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Jonathan Johnson Jonathan Johnson It has not taken long for universities to discover ways artificial intelligence (AI) is being used for bad ends. Reports tell of university students being duped by scams leveraging new technologies. But students aren’t just being abused by the misuse of these new technologies. Some are using AI to abuse others. We are dealing with the fallout of a student’s use of AI tools to create pornographic images of unwitting classmates and educators. While the useful growth in AI tech has been... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3320836/universities-must-take-ethics-seriously-ai-does-more-damage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3320836/universities-must-take-ethics-seriously-ai-does-more-damage?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:30:07 +0000 We are hearing more about artificial intelligence and with increasing urgency. The media is abuzz over chatbots such as ChatGPT, or text-to-image software like Stable Diffusion. It’s an international and local phenomenon. In Hong Kong, educators are scrambling to make sense of this new reality even as Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong calls for an AI supercomputing centre in the city. It’s not just in education and the government, either. In the past few weeks, I’ve had... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3213160/how-ai-could-free-us-return-pursuit-wisdom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3213160/how-ai-could-free-us-return-pursuit-wisdom?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Mar 2023 07:45:13 +0000