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Prof. Jungpil Hahn — Anthropic’s call for a global pause in AI development deserves to be taken seriously but a pause is structurally unlikely, says…
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Dr. Eric Orlowski — As Southeast Asia’s dependence on external AI systems grows, calls for “sovereign AI” are gaining traction. Yet without a clearer meaning…
Dr. Eric Orlowski, Hakim Norhashim, Tristan Koh — Artificial Intelligence, particularly generative AI such as large language models (LLMs), has rapidly emerged as a core…
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This report synthesises discussions from the fifth ASEAN AI Governance Roundtable, held in Vientiane in October 2025, which examined how low-resource and developing contexts, specifically the Lao PDR, can approach...
The Manila Regional Roundtable on AI Governance, held on 24 July 2025, was convened by AI Singapore and the Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Association of the Philippines (AAP) as part...
On 16 May 2025, the Jakarta Regional Roundtable on AI Governance convened representatives from government,academia, civil society, and industry to understand the impact of AI on talent and the future...
At the AI Research Symposium on 27 May 2025, as part of the 2025 ATxSummit Village events, the AI Governance team from AI Singapore brought together academia, government, and industry...
AI Governance Events International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2024 2 – 3 December 2024 Rapporteur: Tristan Koh, Hakim Norhashim, Chen Dawei, and Eric Orlowski Location: National University of Singapore...
On 22 November 2024, the Kuala Lumpur Regional Roundtable on AI Governance convened representatives from government, academia, civil society, and industry to understand the current state of AI governance in...
In November 2024, AI Singapore convened a roundtable at Deloitte Singapore to examine how governance can better support AI adoption among non-tech corporates, particularly in light of the growing regulatory...
The AI Governance pillar of AI Singapore convened a roundtable with industry, government, and academia to discuss whether industry & regulators can and should distinguish between AI- and human-generated content,...
There has been much discussion around national AI strategies over the past couple of years. Though many countries have begun important conversations on several issues and concerns pertaining to AI,...
Sustainable growth with AI involves meeting present needs while maintaining the ability to continue to do so in the future. Within the context of artificial intelligence (AI), this principle entails...
The widespread and escalating integration of AI systems in decision-making processes across diverse sectors underscores the need for a good understanding of these systems. However, the complexity and black-box nature...
The AI Governance pillar at AI Singapore was pleased to host Columbia University’s Anu Bradford to discuss her new book, “Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology”. She argues...
The inaugural AISG AI Governance Research Symposium was held on Monday, 5 June 2023, at Capella Singapore, as part of Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG). Panel 1, moderated by AISG’s...
As AI systems become more complex and pervasive, properly allocating responsibility to developers, deployers, and other stakeholders will be an important aspect of managing risk. To that end, the AI...
- All
- Agentic AI
- AI and Human Cognition
- AI and Social Behaviour
- AI and UX
- AI Capacity Building
- AI Companions
- AI Ethics
- AI Evaluations
- AI for food science
- AI Governance and Policy
- AI Hardware/Software Systems
- AI Harms
- AI in ASEAN
- AI in Finance
- AI in Industry
- AI in Law
- AI in Media
- AI Language
- AI Regulation
- AI Safety
- AI Sovereignty
- AI Standards
- AI Theory
- AI Transparency
- Analytics and Operation
- Anthropology of AI
- Anthropomorphism in AI
- Benchmarks
- Biochemistry
- Biological Sciences
- Biomedical Engineering
- Built Environment
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore
- Centre for Biomedical Ethics
- Centre for Innovation and Precision Eye Health
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Chemistry
- Chinese Studies
- Communications and New Media
- Computational Biology
- Cultural Alignment in AI
- DBS/Chemistry
- Dept of Biochemistry & Dept of Biomedical Informatics
- Digital Resilience
- Duke-NUS Oncology Academic Clinical Programme
- Education
- Education; Humanities and Social Sciences
- Education; Humanities and Social Sciences
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Engineering Design and Innovation Centre
- Explainable AI
- Finance
- Finance and Economy
- food
- Food Informatics
- Future of Work
- Generative AI
- Geography
- Governance and Policy
- Healthcare and Human Potential
- Healthcare and Human Potential
- Healthcare and Human Potential
- Human Agency in AI
- Industrial Systems Engineering and Management
- Information Systems and Analytics
- Intellectual Property
- International AI Governance
- Large Language Models
- Law
- Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
- Logistics
- Manufacturing and Robotics
- Marketing
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Perceptions of AI
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Philosophy
- Physiology
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Public Policy
- Reasoning AI
- Relational AI
- Resource-efficient AI
- Responsible and Safe AI
- Responsible and Safe AI
- Science
- Senhu Wang
- Social Work
- Speaker: Dr Zi Wang
- Statistics and Data Science
- Strategy and Policy
- Thick Outputs
- Urban Sustainability
Prof. Simon Chesterman, Dame Wendy Hall — There is an urgent need for an international AI agency, the writers say, as the technology is too important for its future direction...
Prof. Jungpil Hahn — Anthropic’s call for a global pause in AI development deserves to be taken seriously but a pause is structurally unlikely, says NUS' Jungpil Hahn.
Prof. Simon Chesterman — AI companions are moving digital governance from the familiar terrain of information retrieval and data collection to the more complex domain of relationship-mediated computing. Search engines...
Dr. Eric Orlowski — As Southeast Asia’s dependence on external AI systems grows, calls for “sovereign AI” are gaining traction. Yet without a clearer meaning of what sovereignty actually entails,...
Dr. Eric Orlowski, Hakim Norhashim, Tristan Koh — Artificial Intelligence, particularly generative AI such as large language models (LLMs), has rapidly emerged as a core interest not only among technologists...
Dr. Eric Orlowski — A while back, I wrote a piece on how and why language impacts the perception of artificial intelligence (AI). Specifically, the piece focused on the challenges...
Tristan Koh — Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) presents a complex challenge. Although evaluations provide metrics that seem to objectively measure LLM performance, these figures often do not always effectively...
Dr. Eric J W Orlowski — Eric J W Orlowski Research Fellow, AI Singapore Jargon Matters; It Is Time To Re-Think How We Talk About AI. Someone once said that...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — AI is poised to disrupt almost every aspect of the economy – and, perhaps, our politics. How can we best position ourselves to reap the benefits...
Prof. Jungpil Hahn — In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a specialized topic of academic interest but has now become central to our technological landscape, Nvidia’s...
Hakim Norhashim, Prof. Jungpil Hahn — This paper seeks to quantify the human-AI value alignment in large language models. Alignment between humans and AI has become a critical area of...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — Two critical policy questions will determine the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on the knowledge economy and the creative sector. The first concerns how we...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — Though Donald Trump would like credit for coining the term, “fake news” was a headline in the New York Times more than a century ago. The...
Prof. Edson C. Tandoc Jr — The number of Singapore residents using generative AI chatbot ChatGPT has increased in the last few months, a survey by IN-cube found. In a...
Prof. Edson C. Tandoc Jr — Using generative AI tools to string sentences together, whether for school or work, would be silencing your own voice, says Edson C Tandoc Jr...
Prof. Shirley S. Ho, Dr. Goh Tong Jee — Media features of enhanced capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) for autonomous vehicles (AVs) are interspersed with reports on crashes involving the...
Asst Prof Araz Taeihagh — A key milestone in AI policymaking was the European parliament’s approval of the EU-AI Act in June 2023. The proposal for the Act aimed to...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — As ChatGPT turns one year old, there are growing questions about the way in which it draws upon creative works to compete with the authors of...
Prof. Jungpil Hahn, Dr. Gao Yu Ting — One of the most important technological advancements in recent years is the development of natural language processing (NLP) and the Large Language...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — When people think of risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI), Hollywood looms large. Movies have long conjured the worst case scenarios: from Hal refusing to open...
Dr. Nakyung Kyung — At present, over one in three companies worldwide are incorporating AI into their business operations. There’s a growing shift from human-led management to a system directed...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — The past decade has seen a proliferation of guides, frameworks, and principles put forward by states, industry, inter- and non-governmental organizations to address matters of AI...
Prof. Hahn Jungpil — This morning we had a fascinating talk by Alex Tuzhilin (NYU) on his recent work entitled “Predicting Consumer Choice from Raw Eye-Movement Data Using the RETINA...
Prof. Hahn Jungpil, Mr Varun Seetharaman — One article on CNET, the American website that covers and reviews technology and consumer electronics, was titled “What is a credit card?”. Another...
Prof. Jungpil Hahn, Hannah Rose Lee — There are many reservations about the use of AI by dominant institutions and companies – namely, the lack of transparency and the potential...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — There is a rich literature on the challenges that AI poses to the legal order. But to what extent might such systems also offer part of...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you’ve probably seen works of art or text produced by artificial intelligence (AI). Tools...
- All
- Agentic AI
- AI and Human Cognition
- AI and Social Behaviour
- AI and UX
- AI Capacity Building
- AI Companions
- AI Ethics
- AI Evaluations
- AI for food science
- AI Governance and Policy
- AI Hardware/Software Systems
- AI Harms
- AI in ASEAN
- AI in Finance
- AI in Industry
- AI in Law
- AI in Media
- AI Language
- AI Regulation
- AI Safety
- AI Sovereignty
- AI Standards
- AI Theory
- AI Transparency
- Analytics and Operation
- Anthropology of AI
- Anthropomorphism in AI
- Benchmarks
- Biochemistry
- Biological Sciences
- Biomedical Engineering
- Built Environment
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore
- Centre for Biomedical Ethics
- Centre for Innovation and Precision Eye Health
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Chemistry
- Chinese Studies
- Communications and New Media
- Computational Biology
- Cultural Alignment in AI
- DBS/Chemistry
- Dept of Biochemistry & Dept of Biomedical Informatics
- Digital Resilience
- Duke-NUS Oncology Academic Clinical Programme
- Education
- Education; Humanities and Social Sciences
- Education; Humanities and Social Sciences
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Engineering Design and Innovation Centre
- Explainable AI
- Finance
- Finance and Economy
- food
- Food Informatics
- Future of Work
- Generative AI
- Geography
- Governance and Policy
- Healthcare and Human Potential
- Healthcare and Human Potential
- Healthcare and Human Potential
- Human Agency in AI
- Industrial Systems Engineering and Management
- Information Systems and Analytics
- Intellectual Property
- International AI Governance
- Large Language Models
- Law
- Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
- Logistics
- Manufacturing and Robotics
- Marketing
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Perceptions of AI
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Philosophy
- Physiology
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Public Policy
- Reasoning AI
- Relational AI
- Resource-efficient AI
- Responsible and Safe AI
- Responsible and Safe AI
- Science
- Senhu Wang
- Social Work
- Speaker: Dr Zi Wang
- Statistics and Data Science
- Strategy and Policy
- Thick Outputs
- Urban Sustainability
Prof. Simon Chesterman, Dame Wendy Hall — There is an urgent need for an international AI agency, the writers say, as the technology is too important for its future direction...
Prof. Jungpil Hahn — Anthropic’s call for a global pause in AI development deserves to be taken seriously but a pause is structurally unlikely, says NUS' Jungpil Hahn.
Prof. Simon Chesterman — AI companions are moving digital governance from the familiar terrain of information retrieval and data collection to the more complex domain of relationship-mediated computing. Search engines...
Dr. Eric Orlowski — As Southeast Asia’s dependence on external AI systems grows, calls for “sovereign AI” are gaining traction. Yet without a clearer meaning of what sovereignty actually entails,...
Dr. Eric Orlowski, Hakim Norhashim, Tristan Koh — Artificial Intelligence, particularly generative AI such as large language models (LLMs), has rapidly emerged as a core interest not only among technologists...
This report synthesises discussions from the fifth ASEAN AI Governance Roundtable, held in Vientiane in October 2025, which examined how low-resource and developing contexts, specifically the Lao PDR, can approach...
The Manila Regional Roundtable on AI Governance, held on 24 July 2025, was convened by AI Singapore and the Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Association of the Philippines (AAP) as part...
Dr. Eric Orlowski — A while back, I wrote a piece on how and why language impacts the perception of artificial intelligence (AI). Specifically, the piece focused on the challenges...
On 16 May 2025, the Jakarta Regional Roundtable on AI Governance convened representatives from government,academia, civil society, and industry to understand the impact of AI on talent and the future...
At the AI Research Symposium on 27 May 2025, as part of the 2025 ATxSummit Village events, the AI Governance team from AI Singapore brought together academia, government, and industry...
AI Governance Events International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2024 2 – 3 December 2024 Rapporteur: Tristan Koh, Hakim Norhashim, Chen Dawei, and Eric Orlowski Location: National University of Singapore...
Tristan Koh — Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) presents a complex challenge. Although evaluations provide metrics that seem to objectively measure LLM performance, these figures often do not always effectively...
Dr. Eric J W Orlowski — Eric J W Orlowski Research Fellow, AI Singapore Jargon Matters; It Is Time To Re-Think How We Talk About AI. Someone once said that...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — AI is poised to disrupt almost every aspect of the economy – and, perhaps, our politics. How can we best position ourselves to reap the benefits...
Prof. Jungpil Hahn — In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a specialized topic of academic interest but has now become central to our technological landscape, Nvidia’s...
On 22 November 2024, the Kuala Lumpur Regional Roundtable on AI Governance convened representatives from government, academia, civil society, and industry to understand the current state of AI governance in...
Hakim Norhashim, Prof. Jungpil Hahn — This paper seeks to quantify the human-AI value alignment in large language models. Alignment between humans and AI has become a critical area of...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — Two critical policy questions will determine the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on the knowledge economy and the creative sector. The first concerns how we...
In November 2024, AI Singapore convened a roundtable at Deloitte Singapore to examine how governance can better support AI adoption among non-tech corporates, particularly in light of the growing regulatory...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — Though Donald Trump would like credit for coining the term, “fake news” was a headline in the New York Times more than a century ago. The...
Prof. Edson C. Tandoc Jr — The number of Singapore residents using generative AI chatbot ChatGPT has increased in the last few months, a survey by IN-cube found. In a...
The AI Governance pillar of AI Singapore convened a roundtable with industry, government, and academia to discuss whether industry & regulators can and should distinguish between AI- and human-generated content,...
Prof. Edson C. Tandoc Jr — Using generative AI tools to string sentences together, whether for school or work, would be silencing your own voice, says Edson C Tandoc Jr...
There has been much discussion around national AI strategies over the past couple of years. Though many countries have begun important conversations on several issues and concerns pertaining to AI,...
Prof. Shirley S. Ho, Dr. Goh Tong Jee — Media features of enhanced capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) for autonomous vehicles (AVs) are interspersed with reports on crashes involving the...
Sustainable growth with AI involves meeting present needs while maintaining the ability to continue to do so in the future. Within the context of artificial intelligence (AI), this principle entails...
The widespread and escalating integration of AI systems in decision-making processes across diverse sectors underscores the need for a good understanding of these systems. However, the complexity and black-box nature...
Asst Prof Araz Taeihagh — A key milestone in AI policymaking was the European parliament’s approval of the EU-AI Act in June 2023. The proposal for the Act aimed to...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — As ChatGPT turns one year old, there are growing questions about the way in which it draws upon creative works to compete with the authors of...
The AI Governance pillar at AI Singapore was pleased to host Columbia University’s Anu Bradford to discuss her new book, “Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology”. She argues...
The inaugural AISG AI Governance Research Symposium was held on Monday, 5 June 2023, at Capella Singapore, as part of Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG). Panel 1, moderated by AISG’s...
Prof. Jungpil Hahn, Dr. Gao Yu Ting — One of the most important technological advancements in recent years is the development of natural language processing (NLP) and the Large Language...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — When people think of risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI), Hollywood looms large. Movies have long conjured the worst case scenarios: from Hal refusing to open...
Dr. Nakyung Kyung — At present, over one in three companies worldwide are incorporating AI into their business operations. There’s a growing shift from human-led management to a system directed...
As AI systems become more complex and pervasive, properly allocating responsibility to developers, deployers, and other stakeholders will be an important aspect of managing risk. To that end, the AI...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — The past decade has seen a proliferation of guides, frameworks, and principles put forward by states, industry, inter- and non-governmental organizations to address matters of AI...
Prof. Hahn Jungpil — This morning we had a fascinating talk by Alex Tuzhilin (NYU) on his recent work entitled “Predicting Consumer Choice from Raw Eye-Movement Data Using the RETINA...
Prof. Hahn Jungpil, Mr Varun Seetharaman — One article on CNET, the American website that covers and reviews technology and consumer electronics, was titled “What is a credit card?”. Another...
Prof. Jungpil Hahn, Hannah Rose Lee — There are many reservations about the use of AI by dominant institutions and companies – namely, the lack of transparency and the potential...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — There is a rich literature on the challenges that AI poses to the legal order. But to what extent might such systems also offer part of...
Prof. Simon Chesterman — Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you’ve probably seen works of art or text produced by artificial intelligence (AI). Tools...
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