Real-world insights and strategic guidance drawn from AI Singapore’s successful AI transformation initiatives

  • Acquire skills, build judgement

    Acquire Skills, Build Judgement: Why I’m Retiring My Avengers Slide

    June 11, 2026 By Laurence Liew
    Reading Time: 6 minutes
    For the past two years, one slide has appeared in almost every keynote I have delivered. It shows the Three Stages of AI Empowerment: Audiences liked it. I liked it….
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  • Generative AI Won the Headlines. Classical AI Still Runs the World.

    June 1, 2026 By Laurence Liew
    Reading Time: 9 minutes
    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…
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  • What Successful AI Singapore’s AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP) Candidates Actually Look Like

    May 31, 2026 By Laurence Liew
    Reading Time: 4 minutes
    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…
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  • What We Have Learned About Putting AI to Work — In Government, In Classrooms, and In People

    April 30, 2026 By Laurence Liew
    Reading Time: 7 minutes
    This week, I was part of a panel in a UK government AI learning journey on AI, and separately I was also asked to comment by a publication on the…
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  • When One Human Leads Eight AI Agents in Parallel

    April 28, 2026 By Laurence Liew
    Reading Time: 3 minutes
    A Snapshot from the frontline of the Future of Work Earlier this week, I captured a screenshot from a working session in TAAF, the agent framework I have been experimenting…
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    PMETs Have the Hardest Part Already. Fresh Grads Have the Harder Problem.

    April 14, 2026 By Laurence Liew
    Reading Time: 3 minutes
    Three AI agents working in parallel. One is running a 72-hour autonomous validation loop across 9,750 lesson variants. Another is building out the aiready.sg website. A third is helping me…
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  • AIAP, 100E, IDC Award. What do you do? AIAP

    “Yes, But What Do You Do?”

    December 3, 2025 By Laurence Liew
    Reading Time: 5 minutes
    “You are an AI engineer… what do you do?” If your answer involves PyTorch, data cleaning, or model deployment—you have missed the point. That is your task. Not what you…
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    The AI Confusion is Real. Our Execution is Not.

    November 27, 2025 By Laurence Liew
    Reading Time: 4 minutes
    You hear the statistics. High failure rates. Implementation costs averaging $1.9 million. A workforce largely unprepared for the shift. When you examine global averages, these observations hold water. The confusion…
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    How We’re Future-Proofing AIAP: Staying Seven Years Ahead in the AI Talent Revolution

    June 1, 2025 By Laurence Liew
    Reading Time: 6 minutes
    Seven years ago, when we launched the AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP), people questioned our approach. Real-world projects over academic theory? Skills over degrees? Training passionate self-learners instead of computer science…
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