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Knowing how to use AI is no longer enough. We need to build with it

 Commercialisation, not being conversant, is the real metric

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    • Building should sit at the centre of Singapore’s AI strategy, because it is the way capability is formed.
    • Building should sit at the centre of Singapore’s AI strategy, because it is the way capability is formed. PHOTO: YEN MENG JIIN, BT

    Brian Lim &

    Leslie Teo

    Published Mon, Jul 6, 2026 · 07:00 AM

    THE debate about artificial intelligence and jobs in Singapore has settled into a familiar groove: Will AI take our jobs? How many? Which ones?

    The standard answer is reassuring, sensible and characteristically Singaporean: We will reskill, upskill and equip the workforce with AI literacy, so that no one is left behind.

    That answer is not wrong, but it is incomplete.

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