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 Tan Tai Yong, President and Professor of Humanities (History) at Yale-NUS College | 12 September 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Professor William Maley, Professor of Diplomacy, ANU college of Asia and the Pacific, Australia | 12 September 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Associate Professor James Crabtree, Associate Professor of Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy | 21 August 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Mr TAN Gee Paw, Special Advisor to Chairman, PUB | 17 August 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Enrico Letta, Former Italian Prime Minister and Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PISA) | 17 August 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Wong Kan Seng, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Former Minister for Home Affairs | 3 July 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia and President of the Asia Society Policy Institute | 26 June 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Simon Chesterman, Dean and Professor National University of Singapore Faculty of Law | 6 June 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Associate Professor Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim, Senior Parliamentary Secretary | 5 June 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Hugo Slim, Head of Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross | 24 April 2018