A personal initiative of Laurence Liew · Author of AI-First Nation
AI-First Nation takes you inside AI Singapore’s programmes, from 100 Experiments and the AI Apprenticeship Programme to AI Makerspace, LearnAI and AIRI, and turns them into a blueprint for building an AI-ready organisation.
AIFN Insights
New essays roughly every two weeks — what worked, what broke, and what it means for organisations building AI readiness.
While updating the aifirstnation.org website I rewatched the short film Google Cloud made about AI Singapore in 2023, and decided to write the AIAP story down properly: the model, why it changed from 2+7 to 3+6 months, the new AIAP for Industry, and what it has produced.
An open standard that nobody can run is not a standard. It is a document. I have spent a long time learning the difference, and airihub.io, which I am launching today, is what I have learned put into practice. Start with the framework.
Most AI training treats a hospital director the same as a factory supervisor. That’s why it doesn’t stick. I’ve watched this play out for years, across more than a thousand organisations. A company decides its people need to be “AI ready.” It buys a course, or builds one.
Prefer to watch or listen? Here is the narrated version of this essay, in my own voice. One person, after hours, no grants, and what it says about what AI can now do.
For the past two years, one slide has appeared in almost every keynote I have delivered. It shows the Three Stages of AI Empowerment.
I recently went back through nearly every project our engineers have built since 2018 (181 projects across 100E, AIAP, SIP, AIAP for Industry and LADP, excluding our internal projects and special customer projects) and mapped each one by the AI technique it used.
A four-cohort analysis of 285 applicants to the AI Singapore’s AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP) produced a clear picture of who gets in and what distinguishes them from those who don’t.
AI-First Nation
Eight chapters on Singapore’s AI movement, ending with the AIFN Blueprint, the part your organisation can run.
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