Some of the world’s leaders, and leading thinkers from NUS and overseas, regularly gather and add to the rich diversity of thoughts and ideas on our campuses, in Singapore and across the globe. Here’s what they had to share.
Speaker: Adjunct Prof Chong Siow Ann 2 January 2026
More patients are turning to AI for their health concerns, with a recent article reporting that many rated chatbot responses as more empathetic than those written by physicians. However, the risk of AI in medicine is not simply that it can make mistakes, but that it offers certainty without accountability and confidence without consequence.
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Speaker: Speaker: Professor Wang Linfa | 23 March 2020
Speaker: Experts: Visiting Professor Tikki Pangestu from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang, Infectious Diseases Programme Leader at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health | 9 March 2020
Speaker: Moderator: Dr Gillian Koh, Deputy Director (Research) and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies | 25 February 2020
Speaker: Author: Professor John Wong, NUS Senior Vice President (Health Innovation & Translation) | 21 February 2020
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Kishore Mahbubani, NUS Asia Research Institute Distinguished Fellow | 21 January 2020
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance | 20 January 2020
Speaker: Speaker: Associate Professor Jaclyn Neo, NUS Law | 4 December 2019
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov FRS, Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, NUS Department of Materials Sciences & Engineering | 26 November 2019
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education | 22 November 2019
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance, Republic of Indonesia | 20 November 2019