AI x Workers ＋ Making Sense of the Future

The Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) presents a double seminar featuring two presentations that shed light on interesting and highly pertinent topics of our times. Join us for an exciting and insightful session!

AI x Workers: 10 Designs to Craft an Inclusive Future of Work.
Mr Poon King Wang & Dr Thijs Willems
If skills are the answer to Al's impact on jobs, why do so many questions persist about workers' future?

New strategies that extend beyond automation, augmentation, and even co-piloting are essential. We show why and how, through 10 designs, we can craft meaningful careers, transitions, collaborations, options, and trust in each other and AI.

An Eye to the Future or Back to the Future?
Dr Harvey Neo, Dr Samuel Chng & Dr Sarah Chan
How far ahead do we think about what we think? While some people profess to live in the moment, it is not practical nor possible to ignore the future (or past). We think about the future in diverse situations, such as sourcing for suitable health insurance or simply looking forward to celebrating one's favourite holiday.

Our presentation shares interesting findings from our population survey on what Singaporeans think about the future, and offers behavioural insights to perennial questions such as "Why are we unable to do things which we know, and agree we should do?" and "Why do some people appear nonplussed about existential issues which will affect their lives?"

Event Summary

Event Summary: “AI x Workers + Making Sense of the Future”

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Speakers

Poon King Wang

King Wang is the Chief Strategy Officer and Director of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, both at Singapore University of Technology and Design. He serves on the SkillsFuture Research Advisory Panel, and the Institute of Human Resource Professional Job Redesign Expert Panel.

Dr Harvey Neo

Harvey is a Professorial Research Fellow at Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, in Singapore University of Technology and Design. His research focuses on critical urban studies. citizen urban science and policy-making as well as nature-society interactions.

Dr Thijs Willems

Thijs is a Research Fellow at Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, in Singapore University of Technology and Design. He Is currently engaged in research on the Impact or technologies - such as Al - on work practices and technology-mediated interactions in the workplace.

Dr Sarah Chan

Sarah is a Chan Heng Chee Research Fellow at Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in SUTD. She is environmental psychologist whose research revolve around understanding the synergies and trade-offs between environmental sustainability, technological and urban development, and human well-being.

Dr Samuel Chng

Samuel is a Senior Research Fellow and also heads the Urban Psychology Lab at Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in SUTD. He is an applied social psychologist who focuses on human behaviour and decisions in cities across a range of areas including mobility, sustainability and well-being.