Hong Kong to test AI City Brain ahead of next typhoon season
Hong Kong will trial its AI City Brain platform by next year's typhoon season, with full operation targeted for 2028, Chief Secretary Eric Chan said. The system will integrate early warning and monitoring into an AI platform to improve emergency response.
Hong Kong will begin testing its “AI City Brain” as early as next year’s typhoon season, with full operation targeted for 2028, Chief Secretary Eric Chan Kwok-ki has said.
In a newspaper interview on Monday, Chan said the system will integrate early warning and monitoring systems into an artificial-intelligence platform to sharpen emergency response. The basic design, proposed in the latest Policy Address, will be completed in the first half of next year. The first phase of the platform’s development is expected to be completed and officially launched in the first quarter of 2028.
Separately, Chan discussed the government’s invitation for applications for three campus sites in the Hung Shui Kiu University Town. He said institutions would be chosen on four criteria: industry impact, promoting Hong Kong as an international education hub, talent attraction, and financial viability.
Chan stressed that the HK$10 billion loan pool would not count against applicants, and that proposals would be assessed on their overall merits rather than finances alone. The scheme was designed with flexibility, he added, with the government able to extend the 20-year repayment period by five years if an institution faces exceptional circumstances – a scenario he called unlikely.
Chan said local institutions in the university town will operate on a self-financing basis, arguing that Hong Kong’s institutions are attractive enough to draw overseas students without direct subsidies.