People should not look at such technology as mere tools but use it as partners, said LKYCIC director Poon King Wang, who is also the chief strategy and design AI officer at SUTD.
“The most creative way to use it actually starts with human input, either your imagination or something that you drew yourself or a concept that you actually develop yourself based on your experience. And AI helps you in several ways,” Mr Poon told CNA.
“One, it helps you to articulate those ideas better, because as you debate, discuss with it like a partner, you can actually make the ideas more robust.
“Secondly, because of the generative capabilities of AI, you can actually prototype your ideas.”
RESHAPING PUBLIC SERVICE
AI is also fast reshaping Singapore’s public service.
Nearly four in five public officers – about 122,000 out of 154,000 officers – now use the government’s AI chatbot to help them with writing, research and coding.
The bot, called Pair, was launched in 2023 and developed by the Open Government Products team at the Government Technology Agency (GovTech).
Newly released data for the second quarter of 2025 showed a 20 per cent jump in active users from the first quarter, with about 64,000 a month now.
