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To win the AI adoption race, Singapore must mind the social class and gender gaps
Success will depend on making the technology relevant and accessible to lower-income workers and women.
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Singapore is among a growing pack of nations jostling to get ahead in AI diffusion.
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Laurel Teo
The late American economist Nathan Rosenberg notably argued that the most important question about technological progress is not “Who did it first?”.
Instead, it is the diffusion process – the rate at which a new technology is adopted and the extent to which it is embedded in an economy’s processes – which marks the true impact of an invention.
