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: Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia | 24 January 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Teo Chee Hean, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister | 22 January 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Heng Swee Keat, Singapore’s Minister for Finance | 22 January 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Peter Ho, NUS Trustee and Senior Advisor, Centre for Strategic Futures | 17 January 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Vinod Rai, Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS; and 11th Comptroller and Auditor-General of India | 16 January 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Toby Dalton, Co-Director of the Nuclear Policy Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | 10 January 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, former NUS President | 28 December 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Jeffry Mann, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | 28 November 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Tan Sri Datuk Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta. Maria, Senior Policy Fellow, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia | 27 November 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Dan Shefet, President of the Association for Accountability and Internet Democracy | 22 November 2017