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Introducing independent directors into the boards of listed companies is a common practice in international capital markets and is also an important component of corporate governance for A-share listed companies.

Prof. Xin Tong (HKU Business School) and Lingchong Liu (HKUST) argue that judging AI-generated text requires the tools of literary criticism. Drawing on Shklovsky’s “defamiliarisation”, they link “mode collapse” in language models to a bias toward familiar text, urging AI users to “make the stone stony” again.

People hope that AI can make organizational decision-making more democratic and rational. In reality, while AI makes high-quality judgments accessible to everyone, it also provides new leverage for unchecked power. More equal information does not necessarily mean more equal power.