I think it's a subtle request to spell it properly capitalized (at least in English): Ai Weiwei

Aaah right gotchya.

No, the author’s name is Ai, not AI like in the title. HN auto-editorializing the capitalization?

But the capitalisation is unexpected.

While sometimes people use all-caps for family names (I think it’s French tradition?), I think it looks quite out-of-place and confusing in this case.

We usually only do that in stuff like records, on envelopes, on forms, etc.

Pretty rare to do it in media.