What’s stopping women from joining the AI boom?
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Hello there. Hong Yi here for the first edition of Headstart in this new year.
Artificial intelligence looks poised to continue rewriting the modern workplace and economy in 2025. Yet, there is still a gender imbalance among those working in the field in Singapore arising from latent prejudices. My colleague Ng Wei Kai finds out how this could shape AI’s potential biases and applications, and what’s being done to help widen the talent pool for good jobs that deal with this nascent technology.
We’ve also refreshed the Me and My Money column in The Sunday Times’ Invest section. For the first edition, former F1 champ Nico Rosberg shares what he’d tell his eight-year-old self, as he brings us along his personal journey with money. Stay tuned every Sunday for more of these stories!
Meanwhile, easing interest rates into this new year have also prompted more homeowners to switch up their mortgages in search of savings. Were you one of them? Tell us more at headstart@sph.com.sg
Scroll on to check out more stories chosen just for you. Happy New Year!
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