University of Hong Kong professor loses key role over retracted paper

A prominent population expert from the University of Hong Kong has stepped down as an associate faculty dean and agreed with the retraction of a paper after the institution ruled it contained references to non-existent publications generated by AI. Professor Paul Yip Siu-fai of the department of social work and social administration had stepped down from his associate deanship at the faculty of social sciences and withdrawn his membership from research committees of the faculty and the...