Motion: Kenneth Tiong on artificial intelligence transition with no jobless growth
Access to premium AI, especially AI agents, is a right, not a privilege; it must be universal, not gated by course enrolment or union membership as is the case with a new SkillsFuture scheme or NTUC subsidies. MP Kenneth Tiong said this in parliament on Wednesday (May 6). He also called on the government to treat the handful of companies building frontier AI with the same strategic seriousness it brings to bilateral relations with countries, because their decisions on pricing, access and deployment now shape Singapore’s productivity frontier as directly as any trade agreement. Finally, Mr Tiong proposed a retrenchment framework where a company that decides to automate bears the cost of that decision before the worker does. He suggested a 90-day mandatory transition notice before AI-driven role elimination, a redeployment-first obligation, and for workers to be able to substantively challenge “misleading” reasons for their termination.
Access to premium AI, especially AI agents, is a right, not a privilege; it must be universal, not gated by course enrolment or union membership as is the case with a new SkillsFuture scheme or NTUC subsidies. MP Kenneth Tiong said this in parliament on Wednesday (May 6). He also called on the government to treat the handful of companies building frontier AI with the same strategic seriousness it brings to bilateral relations with countries, because their decisions on pricing, access and deployment now shape Singapore’s productivity frontier as directly as any trade agreement. Finally, Mr Tiong proposed a retrenchment framework where a company that decides to automate bears the cost of that decision before the worker does. He suggested a 90-day mandatory transition notice before AI-driven role elimination, a redeployment-first obligation, and for workers to be able to substantively challenge “misleading” reasons for their termination.
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