How a Hong Kong charity is using AI to help migrant workers tackle exploitation

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A Hong Kong charity is leveraging artificial intelligence to assist overwhelmed migrant workers facing systemic abuse. The organization uses an AI chatbot to provide scalable pro bono support amid broad labor shortages linked to aging populations across major economies.

Overwhelmed by a high volume of inquiries, a 17-member Hong Kong charity offering pro bono help to migrant workers has turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its operations. David Bishop, co-founder and director of local non-governmental organisation Migrasia, described the systemic abuse embedded in global labour migration as an existential “climate change-level” crisis, as ageing populations across major economies worsen labour shortages. Likening the organisation’s AI chatbot,...