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In his 2025 National Day Rally speech,
Few professions are disruption-proof; it is not just the lower-paid, but even well-remunerated white-collar jobs that are at risk. Workers in advanced open economies such as Singapore are among the most vulnerable. For instance, an International Monetary Fund study in 2024 found that about 77 per cent of Singapore’s employed resident workers are “highly exposed” to AI”, one of the highest shares globally, because the workforce is so concentrated in high- and semi-skilled occupations whose tasks are amenable to AI substitution or augmentation.

