With artificial intelligence (AI) expected to take over a large number of programming jobs, it will be easier for labour-short societies like Singapore to compete amid a global tech talent crunch, said President Tharman Shanmugaratnam. The shift, however, would mean having to provide alternative job opportunities for a large band of white-collar workers, something which societies with coordination between the public sector, private sector and labour unions, are well placed to do, he said during a fireside chat at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2023.
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