Singaporean MP Kenneth Tiong calls for universal access to premium AI, strategic treatment of AI companies, and a retrenchment framework to protect workers from AI-driven job losses.
Access to premium AI, especially AI agents, is a right, not a privilege; it must be universal, not gated by course enrolment or union membership as is the case with a new SkillsFuture scheme or NTUC subsidies.
MP Kenneth Tiong said this in parliament on Wednesday . He also called on the government to treat the handful of companies building frontier AI with the same strategic seriousness it brings to bilateral relations with countries, because their decisions on pricing, access and deployment now shape Singapore’s productivity frontier as directly as any trade agreement.
Finally, Mr Tiong proposed a retrenchment framework where a company that decides to automate bears the cost of that decision before the worker does. He suggested a 90-day mandatory transition notice before AI-driven role elimination, a redeployment-first obligation, and for workers to be able to substantively challenge “misleading” reasons for their termination.
MP Kenneth Tiong said this in parliament on Wednesday .
He also called on the government to treat the handful of companies building frontier AI with the same strategic seriousness it brings to bilateral relations with countries, because their decisions on pricing, access and deployment now shape Singapore’s productivity frontier as directly as any trade agreement. Finally, Mr Tiong proposed a retrenchment framework where a company that decides to automate bears the cost of that decision before the worker does.
He suggested a 90-day mandatory transition notice before AI-driven role elimination, a redeployment-first obligation, and for workers to be able to substantively challenge “misleading” reasons for their termination. We know it's a hassle to switch browsers but we want your experience with CNA to be fast, secure and the best it can possibly be.
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