The public opinion on global AI governance is largely skeptical, with many concerns about the effectiveness of proposed regulations particularly from the EU. While there is recognition of the need for ethical guidelines, fears persist that regulations could stifle innovation, hinder competition, and fail to address real-world applications and societal impacts of AI. The general sentiment indicates a demand for concrete plans rather than high-level discussions.

European Union

Governments worldwide

AI technology companies

Good luck,  get your risk assessment process bullet proof and you will be 90% of the way there

scrotalsac69

navislut

That's amazing! Congrats..it's constantly evolving so definitely a great space to be in

ScreenSaver3737

There’s an AI CAIQ might be worth a look as a half way to 42001. Free from the CSA site once you register an account

Huge-Fan7726

ninte_tantha

Good luck! Im in similar situation - received similar offer(AI risk and governance ) I coming from the more technical /application cybersecurity background and thinking now should I accept and get into this new for me role or not.

nubian_or_not

privacy_coach66

Congrats on stepping into the AI Governance world, sounds like you’ve got quite the challenge ahead!

I remember reading a recent industry survey (by Pacific AI) that dug into how orgs of different sizes handle governance. One of the big patterns they found was that a lot of companies have AI policies written down, but far fewer actually embed them into day-to-day workflows. Sounds like you might run into that exact gap.

Might be worth checking out it’s easy to find on their site if you search for the 2025 AI Governance Survey. Some of the stats on small vs. large org readiness were pretty eye-opening.

Hopeful_Valuable1372

Probably you'll see some (or all) of what people encounter internally, in this LinkedIn post :) [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361739631387701248/](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361739631387701248/)

Good luck with your new(ish) job!

gorkemcetin

We are automating AI Governance and Compliance. Happy to connect and show you demo.

ComprehensiveLaw1002

Late to the party but congrats! I'm curious to learn more about your experience. Would you be interested/willing to participate in an AI Security and Governance research study (https://research.anaconda.com/anaconda/dar614qs)? We offer a $40 incentive for an hour interview

EY33_

How's it going? I'd LOVE to work in AI governance and am actively searching for my first role.

If you're hiring.........

Dramatic-One2403

I've been following the AI governance space closely and currently work at a company building an open-source tool for it. We've seen this pattern before. When the first general GRC tools emerged, they were initially niche, but eventually gained traction and led to the rise of several unicorns. I believe AI governance tools are following the same path.

Some of your points I agree with, but what you are asking for is not GRC, it’s DLP. There are platforms that block (available for ages now) or detect when AI platform are being used, and then review copy that goes in (especially when copy/pasted). 

To your point though, there are endless tools that slap AI into them after they’ve already been approved, and that is highly problematic if they opt you in by default and use that data or info to train on. The good news is that a majority that do slap AI on are not actually using AI, it’s just BS marketing OR it’s through GPT API wrappers.. if that is the case you still need to make sure it’s not taking their data.

thejournalizer

100% couldn't agree with this post anymore.

You can't block your way out of this. The explosion of AI in new tools and existing tools is real, every CEO is on Twitter reading and promoting AI manifestos, and IT and security can't be the police. But you still need to deal with the fallout from all of these tools without security standards or even a user management API.

It's basically a super charged version of shadow IT - except adding the number of aspects that need to be evaluated when deciding what to enable/block.

stitchflowj

KillBill230

AI is just the next "cloud" if you will. 


Remember when the same thing was true for cloud services? 


If your company has proper web content filtering this should not be an issue. 


Ie where I work the sites load in read only mode somehow. Folks can't use them when behind the firewall.

Interesting_Date_818

You want grc look at paramify they are doing wonders

viperbe

From my experience, more and more leaders are starting to wake up to this reality now...maybe creating internal policies that have the use of AI only allowed within specifi contexts, under specific regulations, and setting up systems that allow staff to use it within internal data governance parameters will be way to mitigate data leakage and estabilish some sort of data governance in the near future, would love to hear your thoughts about it

Boring-Heat8438

Ironically, isn't this the ideal opportunity for a AI Governance Officer to enter the conversation and tailor internal policies to limit the use of AI and assess how our data is being shared across the different vendors while we instruct/educate our personnel about the information being shared?   
  
As you mentioned in your blog, 'is not longer a client but a vendor decision'...  but I can see how the AI exposure issue needs to be tackle from two different fronts, the organization itself and the vendors. As an organisation we can choose to filter/vet those SaaS that implement AI tools and machine learning without any regulation or responsibility. 

Btw, I like your blog. You should make it a newsletter.

cliomeow

Shadow AI is exactly what stood out in the 2025 AI Governance Survey we ran at Pacific AI. Even in companies with formal AI policies, 48% don’t monitor production AI at all — so a huge amount of activity flies completely under the radar.

That’s why I’m not convinced the problem is “tools vs. no tools” — it’s that governance often lives outside of where the actual AI usage happens. Unless monitoring and risk checks are embedded into the workflows people already use, policies and platforms will always lag behind reality.

[deleted]

I would also probably be inovative and rich if I could do all the illegal things in the world and get away with it.

Zookeeper187

This is a big step for how AI is managed around the world. The EU is clearly trying to make AI safer and more responsible, which is important. But I get why some companies think it might slow things down. The real challenge is finding the right balance—making sure AI is safe without stopping new ideas. Curious to see if other countries, like the U.S., will do something similar or take a different route.

meamarp

If we were to look at this through a accelerationist lens, we could point out that Europe is irrelevant and on its way towards obsolescence. Seems naive to think US or China will follow this route. If we were to be meaner, we could say that Europe is trying to hold on to its remaining power through bureaucracy and stifling.

flyonthewall2050

Will just make the EU even less competitive. Bureaucrats in Brussels have not understood that only carrots work with tech, sticks are useless. If they want to incentivize ethical AI they should give rewards such as tax breaks or public fundings to companies that achieve certain safety standards.

Fixmyn26issue

Its the only first step anyone is taking. I see Altman and Amodei talking a lot but doing zero to fix their own.

neodmaster

The massive giveaway is that these rules don't apply for military use cases. Whata perfect way for large companies with government contracts to explain any breach of the guidelines...Meamwhile a startup or research program is stilted trying to comply.


I am.all for EU but beginning to see ingrained beauracracy that is double dipping on checks and standards...  This is happening in member states aswell... They got drunk on success of some EU STANDARDs but are now over extending. .. There isnt a hope china or usa follow this.

The double dipping is horrendous, if no agency wants to deal.with a real problem they can plausibly ignore it as its the ither agency....But if they smell easy blood,.now you have both agencies chasing for orhogonal standards...... 

Howver it.will do a job ..keep loads of officials  secure and a few conferences to attend to.

gmankev

Next step should be to dismantle Meta for parts.

Shark0_2

Will kill startups. Mega corps will have the money and/or the lawyers  to be compliant.

wxc3

There's a balance to be hit here. On the surface this seems to make sense.

I'd be amazed if we in Britain dont just let it run riot

bluecheese2040

Tech oligarchy impacts innovation more. Ask Microsoft, Google and Meta who buy up innovators and shut them down on the daily. The legislation is not very strong because it's diluted thanks to lobby campaigns in Brussels.

earth-calling-karma

EdliA

Those that want to do business in the EU will go through the motions. Those that want to develop new businesses, will go elsewhere.

EU will be a consumer, people will keep on blaming "big tech" and "why not from EU".

And life goes on.

Meanwhile, consultants will make a killing selling "AI act compliance advisory services".

Pyrostemplar

So... Mistral and any other EU prospect is fucked and we will have to continue to bend over more and more and more to our US/Chinese overlords?

This is not USB-C or GDPR. Here it's probably more hurtful long-term for US companies to comply than to say fuck the EU market...

I think this is dangerous.

Dry-Mongoose-3301

It will do shit all, aside from killing non existent AI development in EU.

iniside

It will reshape EU into an even less important market that's for sure.

Florgy

This is what’s going to happen:

1) EU comes up with some bullshit regulations
2) US companies claim they will comply
3) US companies don’t comply
4) EU fines US companies
5) Trump threatens EU with tariffs
6) EU relents from a weak negotiating position 
7) US companies’ revenues come in OVER budget
8) EU’s revenue comes in UNDER budget
9) US stock market keeps going up
10) EU’s stock market keeps going down

They have the right ideas, but without the world being on board with the same timeline, this is gonna put Europe at a disadvantage.

Then again, Europe is pretty much out of the race anyway and becoming kind of irrelevant overall.

OptimismNeeded

while the act itself makes sense and if implemented by all the countries can be helpful but to think US and China will abide by it is quite foolish .... eventually the act is limiting inventors and investors in EU

0-xv-0

Aí Will continue to advance elsewhere and it will only deprive Europeans of using it

TryingMyWiFi

Once again, EU is going to fall behind in technological progress (for better or worse) but there is no denying that it is out of the AI race.

ethotopia

The rest of the world doesn’t care and is going to do whatever it wants.

justincharles78

It won’t reshape global anything. It will just enable China to overtake the entire west.

SniperViperV2

I’m starting to think leaving the EU might be better for UK economy long term.

Was/am a remainer. But the EU bureaucrats are racing to the bottom

Important_Coyote4970

You can either take the safe path and watch others first, or take initiative to try and innovate with new things. If you take the safe path, people will complain why SG is so slow to adopt xyz (which only is successful in hindsight). If you take the innovative path, then you have to be prepared to have failures on your record (eg biotech hub). Can’t win it all.

SeriousMeringue7630

All your concerns will be way worse if AI turns out to be what the hype is, and Singapore did not try to push in this direction early on. 

Just look at Intel, powerhouse in 1990s and early 2000s, fail to catch on to upcoming trends (ARM and smartphones), and now they are on the verge of dying. At least that’s a company, if it happens to Singapore, you will have bigger concerns than whatever you mentioned. 

If anything, AI is looking to have more concrete real impact that the previous hypes that SG chased such as web3/blockchain/ crypto, not to mention the rapid pace things are evolving in the AI space. 

How the SG gov approaches this push (whether skillsfuture or a more targeted approach of building a certain AI niche role for SG), that i think is open for discussion. But not the direction

Inner-Patience

No choice right. Can't wait until it's confirm a big thing then go in. Will be too late. No one even PAP has a crystal ball we just have to take chances.

AsparagusTamer

Many jobs in their current form will be lost, but the displaced jobless may not qualify for positions newly created by AI. So it will be absolute nightmare for those affected as they need to downscale their lifestyle from 10k-20k monthly income to 3k monthly income. 

That said, we are already losing lots of jobs to offshoring in neighbouring countries with labor costs 65%-75% cheaper than us. In this aspect, AI may help us to retain some highly skilled jobs as companies realised 1 skilled worker with AI assistance could be better value for money than 3-4 workers overseas.

DullCardiologist2000

In general, it just seems like no one really knows how to define "just use AI" properly. Until that happens, it feels a bit like crypto in the early days, a solution looking for a problem to resolve.

So far it's just been watching AI leaders pour billions into a technology that needs a human to hold its hand and check results.

Edit: I love to meme on the gov for pushing AI but time can only tell if the selective bet works out. I just think even the experts haven't figured out how to make AI work properly yet.

From a personal experience standpoint, I've used it (chatgpt/deepseek) myself over time and I can tell the responses have improved since chatgpt first became the "thing". The major pain point is still having to check the output of the AI itself and this remains a barrier that needs to be crossed before implementation can really take hold. It's not the same as automation technologies beforehand where input is fixed and structured and results are more or less predictable.

But when AI has a breakthrough on the hallucination frontier, I think things will drastically become worse for the people on the working level. I would really appreciate it if government could spend more time and effort considering regulations and closing the wealth inequality that would no doubt explode because of this technology instead.

DuhMightyBeanz

Valid concerns, but Singapore's not trying to be Silicon Valley 2.0. They're positioning as Asia's trusted AI governance hub - think compliance and enterprise solutions, not flashy consumer apps.

Standard-Stick-2939

A bit turnoff to hear it in every mainstream media. It’s like the buzzword blockchain a few years ago. &amp; I feel it’s like, if you are not doing it with AI, you will be shunned no matter how good your solution is. Just like the jobs fair at Devan Nair Institute a few weeks (?) ago, i.e. from the contents on the banners &amp; posters there, it’s more important you get a job using SkillsFuture, than plain getting a job at all.

reddiart12

I have a sneaking suspicion that their recent interest in nuclear power and tsl coming out to acknowledge that govt "green" initiatives increasing costs might actually be related.

I feel this won't really be like the pushes to be a whatever hub like in the past. AI is extremely capital and resource intensive - the data centers require enough energy that you basically need to plan and build the electrical infrastructure to support it, the amount of freshwater required to cool the chips is also significant, and then of course there's the cost of the chips themselves.

I just hope that our govt doesn't push into it blindly and is transparent about the expected costs and how the public might benefit from it.

sphqxe

To the government it’s another selling point for foreign investors .

pieredforlife

feels like a bit of a knee jerk reaction by the govt especially given how lost they seem to be regarding firms leaving our country for lower labour cost

drwackadoodles

I think it will fail. As far as I remember, none of the previous "hubs" have really succeeded.

I am a translator who's forced (by my company) to work with an A.I. tool, and I have a very low opinion of that "thing." Not only does our company use AI as an excuse to cut our pay, but the tool itself has so many bugs that it creates more work for us instead of making things easier.

And I can tell you this. Companies won't even consider candidates just because they have SkillsFuture A.I. certification, unless they are also degree holders with prior work experience.

LohTeckYong

Good that govt try to be industry leaders rather than followers…

But the problems come in when my boss also jump on bandwagon and ask me to try use AI for my work in healthcare. Like how? If I can AI, I won’t be a hcw liao

KopiSiewSiewDai

As someone who's in this field, I always tell people that if you don't want to lose your jobs to India and Philippines, you need to be on the AI bandwagon

lampapalan

AI have so many vertical the one that is losing money is the model creation. The application is already making money. The push for AI is meant for productivity gain so that we can justify the high salary here. It is not even an option at this point. The excuse like not everyone can do it, come on if we do not learn and adapt we will be eliminated by competition, Singapore have already been too protective in that respect and people need to wake up and start to get real with the situation, the government cannot protect them forever.

Keep-Darwin-Going

Reminds me of the dot-com bubble burst in the 2000s. Every person and their grandma was creating a startup in those days. Hopefully doesn't play out this way, or at least don't see this happening so soon yet until super AI comes along and makes more human jobs obsolete.

Fit-Ad6697

Starzap

It's a prudent move - what if AI does work and Singapore is behind? That possibility is far worse than spending resources now and it not working out. 

Singapore being a knowledge based economy and positioning to be a "hub" means that we should be the prime location for other countries to set up businesses here, i.e. our workers must be ever-ready, no matter how short lived the trends may be. That's the only advantage we can have as a country.

Equal-Purple-4247

I thought we were on a green plan to try and reduce carbon and save the world. 

Generative AI is the total opposite. 

https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117

Effective-Lab-5659

Given the current state of Al, where the technology itself is rapidly evolving, poorly understood even by its own creators, and embedded in a complex web of competing efforts by tech companies, research labs, and state actors, no one really knows how to regulate it properly. 

There are efforts, of course, such as the EU Al Act. But how these frameworks will interact with the technology's unpredictable trajectory, the potential economic opportunities, and the geopolitical risks of falling behind remains unclear.

No one wants to "play hero" and "regulate AI" too much only for investments to get routed to your neighbours with looser (or no) regulations. There are harms of course, so if you ask me, just regulate specific harms as and when it appears.

noakim1

Am not sure what your concern is which is abit all over the place. How does the AI company bleeding money impact us for example? Govt is not pushing people to invest in it.

Taking your example of the creative industry - govt is not pushing people to do AI art resulting in job losses; it’s more the reverse that there is a lower demand for job because people start to adopt AI art. What is the solution then? Of course try and embrace and see if you can adopt it to add value right?

If you distinguish the use case of AI vs actually developing AI, I think in the former there is lots of scope to simplify our lives here (hello looking at you govt chatbots from 1985).

One thing the govt does pretty well is sandboxes, as it has done with crypto. If no major infrastructure etc has become blindly reliant on AI, wouldn’t it be good at least to encourage industries to try and see what benefits it can bring (eg prescriptions in polyclinic)?

fdfesfds

The only issue I have with AI is the lack of any kind of regulation in any country spearheading its efforts in regards to intellectual rights, copyright etc.

But that's AI in general. 

As for the SG Government, while I *personally* find generative AI use in commercial settings appalling, I can't exactly blame the government. They of course, prioritized the money. They've been keeping on that path for awhile now, opportunities for seizing a bigger piece of the pie &gt; respecting art/creativity.

TL;DR I wish it was different, but the world is the way it is so... what do you want to do.

ACupOfLatte

lol on one hand you have redditors scolding the government for not innovating, resulting in over reliance on MNCs. On the other hand, you have redditors questioning the push by govt for AI. 

IMO AI will lead the next Industrial Revolution like how the steam engine and internet did. It is important that Singapore tried as well. Or else we will end up like Japan still stuck in the past using fax 

trashmakersg

you should be skeptical, every single industry pivot push has been pretty much a failure in the last 10 years 

remember alternative meats…? Lmao

Wonderful_Map_3910

They are doing something, could have been better with execution but at least its something. Or the government can have a group of people attending courses or see the course materials to vet them. Helps with unemployment as well.

Negative-Eggplant-41

As a nation we are looking for a new breakthrough as our status as tradehub is at risk of being obsolete. We keep trying to look for new things to try to stay relevant in this changing world.

jaqoozie

Read this book: Reshuffle by Sangeet Paul Choudary. It referenced how sg grew from its port via standardization of containers and that we were able to create a system and benefit from it. 

Similarly for AI, the key lesson  is: don't just look at AI to get immediate improvement benefits, cut costs, or even deliver more value to customers. Instead look at the broader system, the interaction field, and have the foresight to recognize structural change and pursue with discipline bets that deliver "second-order" benefits, namely impacts on the larger system. 

For example, Uber did not just create better transportation access, it reshaped urban mobility habits, and car ownership. Google did not just create video hosting, it helped create the creator economy or influencer economy, etc.

Useful framework to think about how we can enable our companies to move faster up the value chain.

alantham

AI engineer here so I'm happily biased :D but also speaking from first-hand experience --- as someone who's been using coding agents on a daily basis to write in languages that I've never learned, the efficiency gains are real. But there are limits and hallucinations. I don't believe the AGI hype train too, I'm more of the a lot of capability-building and change transformation needs to be done before AI can be deployed en masse and be effective camp.

My concern is more that Singapore is not doing enough to leverage AI effectively, in our part of the world, China and Japan seems to be where all the action is when it comes to innovations in AI.

If LLM companies collapse like what happened with the dot-com bubble burst which set the stage for what's to happen next, as euphoria-induced infrastructure buildout meant internet surfing costs came down dramatically, I'm actually hopeful that a real wave of building can begin after the market corrects!

Tiny_Victory_5390

Quite a terrible push imo. I think people on the ground will lead it with better ideas on what is "AI" since even the examples used during the National Day Rally aren't exactly AI but more "machine learning". 

AI stuff is still quute terrible, so I am imagining some higher up scriptwriter being bedazzled by how powerful their AI Companion is and start imagining their work effectively supplanting humans. It isn't as simple as that.

gazelle_chasing

We do not how the next few yrs will look but just like the internet, ai will be ubiquitous 10 yrs from now. So sg has to start this journey somewhere and time is now. Jus like arms race, can sg allow regional countries to get ahead of us? Change isn't easy but the world will move ahead without us in the loop. 

Let's be ai empowered. Jus like how cars replaced horses, new roles new jobs will be created. 

At its current phase, ai (specifically lrm) is at best good at patterning but not problem solving tho it can give very convincing reasoning. So humans still hv a runway.  https://futurism.com/apple-damning-paper-ai-reasoning

Darth-Udder

I mean, you risk it and without risk, there's no gain. My concerns are more fundamental:

- What does Singapore have to offer that other countries don't?

- Is it highly skilled talent? We just had a report saying that Singapore is doing like crap in that

- Is it top academic talent? Why Singapore and not UK, the US, etc? 

- Is it security based applications? How are we going to do this better than Israel? 

Specially with Singapore high operational expenses, why am AI hub in Singapore and not in Vietnam, Malaysia or Thailand?

Rough_Shelter4136

Funny thing is this opinion resembles AI slop, just regurgitated talking points of AI bad, government bad.

Same for the people that hate on crypto. 25 years ago you tell people to use their credit card to buy stuff online they would laugh at you too.

iamacumbdunt

I just want to know when AI will replace mps and ministers. They should be the first to be irrelevant. After all, we just need spokesperson to represent us on the global stage. 

TopZookeepergame7991

theyre going to have to be specific on what they expect AI to do given how much the termed has been bandwagoned into absolute nonsense. machine learning, llm, predictive, generative...etc just slapping ai on anything expecting results just adds to the bubble

FitCranberry

Few years ago want to be crypto hub, now wan to be ai hub. Hype beast leh the govt

tallandfree

am a tech content writer that works with international companies in an agency so will share what I see based on my research lately and what I’ve spoken to my clients about.

Personally think Singapore is making progress and the direction is somewhat there. Are we fast and big as China or the US? Definitely not. Do we have breakthrough innovation? Not really. But the supporting IT infrastructure and ecosystem arrangements are being firmed up in areas that matter for ai so a good sign

implementations of AI are common and boring, but they’re working in industries and applications that matter and get the most ROI. Like you said things like automating compliance in finance and drug discovery, streamlining software development lifecycles, etc.

The bigger question is whether AI will genuinely take off to benefit the every man in a meaningful way. Still feels unproven and more like na. Here’s a half broken chatbot with no eq. we innovative now give us that sweet investor money 

You’re spot on about the hub push makes sense given our current position. The issue is we are not that competitive anymore. A data management CTO I spoke to a few weeks ago said we’re far ahead of neighbors in infrastructure and capability to support AI, and that the government is making the right moves. Many can’t even get data to move in real-time properly, don’t even talk about ai. But when they catch up, we’re in deep shit because it’s not that cheap to do business here compared to SEA 

The talent part… I genuinely don’t know if what schools teach and the graduates they produce is helping with actual AI adoption and creating value in sg. Don’t get started on skillsfufure courses 

Policy wise we seem to have somewhat of a grasp on responsible development, things like AI Verify, and now discussions about AI bills of materials and frameworks. Just that not alot of laws are written with these in, and it’s not clear how enforceable they are and if they work, because shit hasn’t hit the fan. Yet. 

TL;DR I think as a smaller country we are getting somewhere la and we have a generally coherent direction compared to many countries who are still figuring out what the fuck they are doing. But if we don’t buck up our lunch is going to be eaten

kyorah

My main question is how Singapore will continue to say we're a green country and trying to reduce climate change when AI has so many environmental issues tied to it.

muaz2205

There's really not much real world application for AI right now (hence the general consensus of the bleeding money bit), and certainly even less that a person that has no technical background can take advantage of to leapfrog into a leading position.

I've seen some great use of generative AI and vid gen but they come mostly from people who are already in the artist/video editing space who can make full use of the newly available tools to cut down on the time required to make stuff e.g. some really great use of AI from adobe showcased as well but only if you're already familiar with use of photoshop. But even then there's a lot of post processing needed to get things to a "public release" quality unless you're one of those companies who literally don't give a shit and just want to push content out ASAP. 

Ultimately as it currently stands any AI work has to be double verified by people to ensure that there's no hallucinations, that the work actually works, that there's no weird random citing to things that don't exist, etc. But having said that, the improvements to AI have been coming fast and if you are already familiar in that space you will be well positioned to take full advantage of it when a breakthrough AI finally comes along.

miriafyra

U can push for AI, doesn’t mean people will accept. Especially the older generations holding key positions in companies. They say go AI. Do they KNOW what AI is? Do THEY know what AI capabilities are when they outsource people for AI solutions? What about their subordinates? Will these subordinates even CARE about AI when everything that has worked for them so far has STILL been working? 

I feel that in my particular sector (operations) there’s a lot more that can be done but people here are too backwards.

Ok_Internal_1413

Until I hear a concrete plan, I will classify all the high-level visionary drivel as superfluous political speak. Even if such a plan materialises, my guess is it manifests as subsidies for “AI training” courses, and the providers (read: grantrepreneurs) will happily take the truck loads of taxpayer money on offer. Everyone pats themselves on the back for bringing the SG workforce to the bleeding edge of AI empowerment (translated: singaporeans won’t just be regular prompt monkeys — we’ll be certified prompt monkeys).

leviOppa

The advances in AI is tremendous the last 3 years.

It’s not a stretch to say the next 3 years is going to go parabolic

CutFabulous1178

a LOT of stuff is basically people who dont know how it works selling expensive stuff to people who dont know shit how it works. But the money is real, so if they pay they want at least the newest latest whateverish. Matter of fact ist that AI could actually be useful, cost minimizing (withour major layoffs)and improving almost each working environment, if it were implemented with the brain in the head and the heart at the right place. thats not how the world works tho. Matter of fact is that most transformations came with large human damage which spans accross the globe. destabilizing pollitics all over the place, while back-fire on those companys itself. AI is being used for stuff that could have been automated decades before using simple deterministic logic. Seems like people dont remember what a computer is actually doing, and are pushing for ai agents fine tuned for deterministic logic. Its like hiring a musician to build a space rocket.... if you are lucky the musician might show up in time but he wont build a space rocket for you - should have not fired the rocket engineer

Neither_District_881

This is a small business perspective - it's invaluable. We use it to build automations and tools to reduce work. We don't use it for customer/human interfacing at all yet.
Company is damn on. All Dev team NEED to use it. 

Non Dev team - encouraged to use at different levels. Slowly turning into mini Dev team. 
Basic level, use chats interface. Eg. Feed chatgpt a pdf to extract a csv or improve an email. 
Intermediate - use chatgpt/ Claude/ copilot to build scripts ( noncoders become coders)
Advanced - Accessing AI API in the scripts  they are writing. Eg. Automation thats calls on AI to process something via API like pull all new hardcopy letters, classify, rename, file, create draft email response for actionable scans/letters.

So yeah, agree that it's important to push. Dont know how its being done

Flashy-Style-9085

Why we need a retiree to study a 3 day AI course?

Ok-Moose-7318

I don't have strong feelings on it. Though I think ai, particularly llm and ai image model is a bubble right now

Minette12

The use case for AI is not in medical or legal, it is still far from usable and have too much regulations to earn any money. The real earner is data analysis and business intelligence.

Melodic-Letter-1420

This is kind of tangential, but SG seems kind of well-positioned for several niches the hard AI R&amp;D because of the CN and US frenemy situation. But these roles aren't for the general job seeker.

jhanschoo

giantoads

National AI Strategy (NAIS) 2.0 is the progressive blueprint for better socio-economic governance in anticipation for full-blown AI adoption worldwide.

Within Singapore's capacity, genuine AI adoption brings prosperity and higher productivity. However, talent development sees talent crunch and gap. Attending three-day class or workshop does not make one expert outright.

If algorithm bias can be kept in check, AI system benefits people. No hoarding of information and things get done effectively and efficiently. Probably we do not need so many MPs in the Parliament or civil servants to get things done. 

Governance of AI systems is critical success factor to gain public trust and perception of reliable AI systems. Having the equilibrium of innovation and regulation right protects us from potential harms. Still, data privacy and misuse of AI technologies remain at large.

All stakeholders must be onboard - directly or indirectly - in AI adoption for new world order.

jeffning

It's stupid and reckless but we have this carnal need to out-compete everyone and be the first and the best and the richest and the coolest, so we'll throw money at every horrible idea hoping that at least one of them will make a lot of money. Then at least we can pretend that it isn't still a horrible idea because the line went up.

We have an absolutely crippling and toxic self-serving mindset as a nation and it's fucking embarrassing.

gepigop

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Tight-Rush-4987

It's already dying when the government gets to it

Pinsterr

Like all new tech, overestimated in the short run and underestimated in the long run. AI is going to change everything, no doubt about it, but not overnight, its going to take some years

cointegration

Electricity for AI data centre take from where? All our AI chips re-export to china so how to get data centre running?

wirexyz

Singapore is so small compared to the US or China. No way are we gonna lead the AI race but what we can do is lead in it’s adoption

Xycone

Leaders and experts at the UN call for international regulations and red lines to mitigate AI risks, highlighting the need for responsible use of technology.

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