Some of the world’s leaders, and leading thinkers from NUS and overseas, regularly gather and add to the rich diversity of thoughts and ideas on our campuses, in Singapore and across the globe. Here’s what they had to share.
Speaker: Assoc Prof Taberez Ahmed Neyazi 7 January 2026
In politics, deepfakes are often framed as an existential threat to democracy. But do they really fuel polarisation as much as we assume? New research from India suggests that the real political risk posed by AI lies not in deepfakes, but in public trust surrounding how AI is used in politics.
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Speaker: Speaker: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University | 16 June 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore | 30 May 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, President, National University of Singapore | 9 May 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Carl Wieman, Nobel Laureate and Physicist, Stanford University | 28 April 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Tan Tai Yong, President-designate of Yale-NUS College | 26 April 2017
Speaker: Speakers: Dr Beh Swan Gin, Economic Development Board Chairman; Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Prof Brian Kennedy, Buck Institute for Research on Aging | 21 April 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Peter Ho, NUS Trustee and Senior Advisor to the Centre for Strategic Futures | 19 April 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University | 12 April 2017
Speaker: Speaker: His Excellency Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan | 7 April 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Peter Ho, NUS Trustee and Senior Advisor to the Centre for Strategic Futures | 5 April 2017