Singapore refreshes Smart Nation goals with plans to tackle online harms and strengthen AI know-how
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SINGAPORE — Plans are afoot to equip scientists and students with artificial intelligence (AI) know-how and offer swift remedies to victims traumatised by cyber bullying and deepfakes circulating online, as Singapore charts its next Smart Nation milestones.Singapore refreshes Smart Nation goals with plans to tackle online harms and strengthen AI know-how
SINGAPORE — Plans are afoot to equip scientists and students with artificial intelligence (AI) know-how and offer swift remedies to victims traumatised by cyber bullying and deepfakes circulating online, as Singapore charts its next Smart Nation milestones. Announcing the refreshed Smart Nation 2.0 plan on Oct 1, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said that Singapore must sharpen its focus on what he described as the «three building blocks» in the next phase of its journey to becoming a technologically enabled nation. The building blocks of growth, community and trust go beyond a narrow focus on digitalisation, the hallmark of Singapore's first Smart Nation plan launched in 2014. «The digital landscape today is vastly different from a decade ago when our first Smart Nation plan was launched,» said PM Wong at the launch held in the Punggol Digital District, which has been earmarked as Singapore's first Smart Nation business district. «Smartphones and social media have become the main ways we communicate with each other. Perhaps the biggest change is the recent breakthroughs in generative AI,» he said. Read more