Hong Kong’s ‘AI city brain’ to cost initial HK$200m, but ‘won’t catch thieves’

Hong Kong’s proposed “AI city brain” will cost HK$200 million (US$25.5 million) for the first phase and will connect to the police’s citywide security camera network, authorities have revealed, while stressing that the new system would not be used for crime detection or the surveillance of residents. Speaking at a Legislative Council question and answer session on Thursday following his annual policy address a day earlier, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also emphasised the system would not tap...