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Grace Shao: covering AI in Hong Kong, beyond the US-China conflict narrative, evolving to Substack

Grace Shao: covering AI in Hong Kong, beyond the US-China conflict narrative, evolving to Substack

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Grace Shao is a journalist covering the AI industry from Hong Kong, focusing on China's tech companies and the commercialisation of AI. She talks about the "Deep Seek moment" over the Lunar New Year holiday in 2025, how it upended the accepted paradigm of generative AI development, and analyses how the traditional media narrative of a "race" and "conflict" between the US and China limits the understanding of what is happening with AI development. She also reflects on how this narrative impacts personally on a journalist born and raised in a Chinese family in Canada, educated in the US and working from Hong Kong, often travelling to mainland China. She discusses the advantages for Hong Kong-based journalists to bridge the culture and knowledge gaps in newsrooms in London and New York, as well as her journey from traditional media publications to developing her own Substack, and how this business model changes the presumptions of what is to be expected from journalists.


Find Grace Shao on Substack: https://aiproem.substack.com/


Produced and presented by Jarrod Watt

Theme music composed by Allen Youngblood

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