Speaking on a panel at the Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute’s Asean Roundtable on 5 November, Acting Manpower Minister Jasmin Lau said none of Asean’s member states, including Singapore, has yet figured out how to manage AI’s effect on jobs. She said Singapore aims to turn AI into real productivity gains for both workers and businesses, but warned that uneven adoption could create a two-speed society in which larger firms pull ahead of the small and medium-sized enterprises that employ most of Singapore’s workers.