Singapore's AI Workforce Push: 80,000 Finance Workers, Primary School Chips, and the Safety Question Nobody Wants to Answer

Singapore's finance sector just announced the country's most concrete AI workforce commitment yet: 23 financial institutions will train their entire local workforce — over 80,000 employees — in critical AI skills by 2028. The Institute of Banking and Finance launched five new initiatives including an AI workforce co-lab where companies will map how jobs are changing and test practical training approaches. Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, who also chairs MAS, made the core...