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 Gungwu, Chairman of NUS East Asian Institute | 17 August 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Lam Khee Poh, Dean of NUS Design and Environment | 15 August 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University | 10 August 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Bernard Yeung, Dean, NUS Business School | 31 July 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Commander Jeffrey Williams, Retired NASA Astronaut | 12 July 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr V.K. Rajah, Former Attorney-General of Singapore and Judge of Appeal | 8 July 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum | 5 July 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Neo Mei Lin, Research Fellow at NUS Tropical Marine Science Institute | 27 June 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University | 16 June 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore | 30 May 2017