Vice Provost & Dean @NUSingapore/@NUSCollege; @NUS_Law; Director @AISingapore | AI & data | international law | occasional fiction | the odd New Yorker cartoon
Joined August 2011
- Tweets 6,465
- Following 4,675
- Followers 5,457
- Likes 5,717
1,478 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
30 Jun 2023
I’m thrilled that my first work of general fiction, “Artifice”, is at last available worldwide! Skip the thread and order the book here: simonchesterman.com/2023/06/…
Or read on! #Artifice
8
9
73
8,725
AI companions are coming. But our privacy rules are not ready.
In the early days of the internet, search engines helped find what we were looking for. Then social media platforms began to infer whom we knew and what would keep us engaged.
1
1
1
194
Accessible on the Straits Times site here straitstimes.com/opinion/ai-…
1
23
or in full on my homepage here simonchesterman.com/2026/06/…
1
2
164
An answer to the question no one asked: what if everything on the internet was hallucinated? Fascinating and disturbing in equal measure, but they should definitely do that pigeon census. futurism.com/artificial-inte…
63
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘴, argues that artificial intelligence must serve humanity, not the other way around. Two groups now pore over its contents and implications.
1
2
136
One is a mostly male, intensely hierarchical community built around revealed truth, specialised vocabularies, ritualised gatherings, and the promise that the faithful may one day transcend death.
The other is Catholic.
1
1
113
Technology should serve humanity. That proposition sounds simple. In the age of AI, it may be the most important article of faith we have.
1
72
That would be a real challenge for small and middle powers, where there is a strong desire to be at the table – rather than on the menu (H/T PM Mark Carney & Prof S Jayakumar).
3
1
61
Yoshua’s answer was to learn more and to feel more – to embrace curiosity and not give up on the search for expertise, but also to develop our human qualities of connection and communication. No boos to that.
1
1
68
Further reading doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2025.10…
44
from a public that is growing increasingly sceptical of AI (though less so in Singapore and China than the US and Europe).
A fascinating development is the possibility that national security starts to limit access to the most powerful models.
1
20
Now that tariffs have been normalised, it’s not a big stretch to see how limiting access to models could serve economic nationalist goals as well.
1
14
We’ve seen the rise and fall of export controls on chips, but on models themselves this first came up in respect of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview as a cybersecurity concern.
1
33
The key challenge is how to bring about change. It’s not always clear that fear is the best motivator; many engineers warn that AI will displace or destroy us all, then get back to work.
1
43
Successful responses need to show that responsible AI, governance, etc., operate not as stop signs but as seat belts – keeping us safe even as they enable us to drive faster. And it requires tangible benefits – and mitigation of harms –
2
31