About
Two halves of one argument
AI For Good is a student-led organisation in Hong Kong, founded in June 2023. We do two things: we write recommendations on AI and economic policy and submit them to the Hong Kong government, and we teach free tutoring to underprivileged primary school children. Roughly twenty recommendations go to government each year; 350 children have been taught so far.
Why we do both
AI policy written without seeing who it lands on is bad policy — and the children we teach are exactly who it lands on.
The two halves are not a coincidence of interests. Sitting in a classroom in Ho Man Tin and watching a child meet an AI tutor for the first time tells you something a consultation paper cannot: which children already have a tutor at home, which have a device, and which are about to be left further behind by a technology everyone is calling an equaliser.
That is where most of our submissions come from. The teaching shows us the gap; the research works out whether it is a policy problem; the submission asks the government to close it. It also runs the other way — what we learn writing about education and labour policy changes what we think is worth teaching a ten-year-old. We would rather be the organisation that has been in the room than the one that has only read about it.
How it started
AI For Good began in June 2023 as a school club, started by Justin Lo, Ka Hei Ng, and Oscar Zheng, and joined at a later stage by David Dong and Jackie Xue.
It started with a straightforward observation: decisions about artificial intelligence in Hong Kong were being made quickly, and the people who would live with them longest — students, and the children now in primary school — had no part in making them. A club that only discussed that felt insufficient. So we began writing submissions to the consultations that were open to anyone who bothered to file, and teaching in the schools that would have us. Three years on, both are still running, and neither has stopped being useful to the other.
What we do
Policy
We submit roughly twenty written recommendations to the Hong Kong government each year. We have filed to Policy Address consultations and Budget proposal feedback in every cycle since 2024, and we are currently submitting to the First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2026–2030). The subjects follow from the work: taxation, AI governance, education, labour, and health. We argued for an inclusive AI programme in successive submissions; the 2026–27 Budget allocated HK$50 million to AI for All.
Read the policy work →Teaching
We run free tutoring for underprivileged primary students across seven schools in Hong Kong. Forty-three trained tutors teach four modules — mathematics, English, economics, and science — each pairing a school subject with AI as a free, patient learning tool. Three hundred and fifty children have been taught so far. Since 2024, 86% of our students have moved up at least one class band.
See the teaching →How we work
Writing a proposal
Member interviews, then research, then drafting. Every proposal states the case for, then the case against, then the recommendation — in that order, in every submission we file. If the case against wins, the proposal does not go out.
Running a session
Tutors are trained before they teach. They work from a written curriculum built around the four modules, so a child gets the same standard of session whichever school they are in and whichever tutor is in front of them.
Impact
HK$50M
allocated to AI for All in the 2026–27 Budget — the inclusive AI programme we argued for
86%
of our students have moved up at least one class band since 2024
350 children taught · 7 schools · 43 tutors trained · 35+ members · ~20 recommendations a year
Partners
We teach with Ho Man Tin Ling To Catholic School, St. Barnabas' Home & Society, Kennedy Town School, and 10% Organisation.
What's next
- PolicyWe are submitting to the First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2026–2030), on how AI and economic policy can widen rather than narrow opportunity.
- TeachingWe return to Ho Man Tin Ling To Catholic School next year, with the four modules and a new cohort of tutors.
Get involved
Schools and organisations: if you work with underprivileged students and want tutors, we bring the curriculum, the tutors, and the equipment — get in touch.
Students: we have opened recruitment at Victoria Shanghai Academy for students interested in policy, economics, and AI, and we look for people who care more about the work than the title — tell us what you'd want to work on.