{"id":299438,"date":"2026-02-19T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/299438\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:11:12","slug":"is-singapore-prepared-for-a-rent-a-human-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/299438\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Singapore prepared for a \u2018rent-a-human\u2019 world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Watching Prime Minister Lawence Wong deliver his Budget speech, with its major emphasis on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/how-singapore-will-build-its-ai-capabilities?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Singapore embracing artificial intelligence<\/p>\n<p><\/a>, my mind returned to the Cisco AI Summit in San Francisco on Feb 3, where I caught a glimpse of what an AI future could look like \u2013 one in which the human role will be fundamentally redefined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">With concepts such as \u201crent-a-human\u201d floated \u2013 the idea that machines will handle the bulk of cognitive labour, leaving humans to be \u201crented\u201d only for niche tasks requiring soul or physical touch \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/budget-2026-pm-wong-to-chair-new-national-ai-council-national-ai-missions-will-launch-to-drive?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Singapore\u2019s AI Council<\/p>\n<p><\/a>, to be led by Mr Wong, has not a moment to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watching Prime Minister Lawence Wong deliver his Budget speech, with its major emphasis on Singapore embracing artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-299438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}