About Yung-Hsuan 伍永瑄

Following a given, beaten path bores him.

Dedicated to doing things just a bit differently, Yung-Hsuan remains a yet-to-be-defined project, mostly describable by what he doesn’t like. He applied for a law program but backed out because he could not fathom spending the next decade studying pharmaceutical cases. He dabbled in economics just to prove he cannot live by the rationalist paradigm. He tried international business and was met with a blissful disaster; he will not be a good business partner. He pursued international relations studies for the longest only to discover that he does not want to play, in his head, the geopolitical game over and over.

But he likes AI stuff. The discipline, despite its technical façade, is more about people and their relation with the world than about a few code blocks on the loose trying to exterminate humans. The ever-expanding field is sufficient ground for Yung-Hsuan to get lost in a rabbit-hole search for what it means to be human. Embracing the improbability of finding a definitive answer, he finds the chase itself revealing and satisfying enough.

Oops, got carried away. About Yung-Hsuan, you will find book facts insufficient to explain who he is because, despite their truths, they never constrained him from trying to do things differently. He grew up in Taiwan and has lived in Hong Kong, Geneva, and a few other cities. He graduated from a dual degree program with a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong and a Master in International Affairs from the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID).

He is still on his way to finding something different to do, something about AI, writing, and being human.