{"id":90316,"date":"2025-08-17T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90316\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:42:07","slug":"ndr-2025-singaporeans-remain-key-priority-as-ai-reshapes-economy-says-pm-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90316\/","title":{"rendered":"NDR 2025: Singaporeans remain key priority as AI reshapes economy, says PM Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"

SINGAPORE: Amid concerns over the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong assured Singaporeans that they remain the central focus of the country’s economic strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cSingaporeans will always be at the centre of everything we do,\u201d he said during his National Day Rally speech<\/a> on Sunday (Aug 17).<\/p>\n

Acknowledging that technology will lead to some roles evolving and others disappearing, Mr Wong said new jobs will also emerge.<\/p>\n

To help Singaporeans seize new job opportunities, he announced a new job-matching initiative to be led by the five Community Development Councils (CDCs), which will help connect jobseekers with vacancies.<\/p>\n

He noted that while previous waves of technological change improved job quality and pay, many now fear AI may replace entire occupations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand these concerns, and I assure you: even as we embrace Al and technology, we will not lose sight of our key priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Wong stressed that innovation and technology are vital to raising productivity and improving lives in a sustainable way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Singapore has invested in research and development for over two decades, including an early bet on biomedical sciences that proved valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are applying the same long-term approach to other frontier technologies,\u201d he said, highlighting quantum computing as an example.<\/p>\n

Beyond cutting-edge research, Mr Wong said it is important for new technologies to be adopted across the wider economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE: Amid concerns over the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong assured Singaporeans that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[181,28,13897,101,61374],"class_list":["post-90316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-cdc","tag-economy","tag-national-day-rally-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}