How Singapore confronts AI fears of ‘broken’ career ladder, no pause button

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Singapore is promoting AI adoption as a way to address constraints in land and manpower, despite concerns about job losses and cyberthreats. Digital Development and Information Minister Josephine Teo says the country aims to pursue AI pragmatically while avoiding overdependence on any single provider or geopolitical power.

Singapore is seeking to flip the script by turning its land and manpower constraints into reasons to embrace AI instead of fearing it, even as the technology carries the spectre of job losses and cyberthreats in the wrong hands, a senior official has said. Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo argued that pragmatism would give her resource-scarce country an edge without becoming overly reliant on any single power or AI provider. At the Family Business Summit in Hong Kong...