Ten practitioners on one stage on what AI changed in their actual work, and what it did not.
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On 27 July 2026 at the Singtel Academy, CFTE, Global Women in AI and Singtel put ten practitioners on one stage to describe what AI changed in their own work, and what it did not.
The speakers came from a telco, a bank, a hospital, a university, an industrial AI startup and a documentary studio. They disagreed on plenty. They converged on one thing: the constraint is no longer the technology.
More than 160 people were in the room. Every talk has since been written up, and the articles are collected below alongside the quotes that framed the evening.
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Nobody on stage argued that AI supplies purpose. Several argued the opposite: once the direction is set, AI compresses the distance to it. The scarce input is deciding what is worth building, not building faster.
Adoption stalls where people do not feel safe experimenting. Singtel's framing was explicit: human intelligence and artificial intelligence multiplied by cultural intelligence, not added to it. Without psychological safety the tools sit unused.
The sharpest warnings were not about job loss. They were about displaced trust: patients trusting a chatbot over a clinician, teams trusting an output nobody interrogated. Accountability does not transfer to a model.
Artificial Intelligence may shape the future of technology. Human Intelligence will shape the future of society. Inclusion will determine whether that future belongs to everyone.
Tram Anh Nguyen
Co-Founder, CFTE and Chairwoman, Global Women in AI
The human has got to be in the room. The human is still going to be accountable.
Aileen Tan
Group Chief People & Sustainability Officer, Singtel
Supercharged is three things: domain experience, leveraging AI, and future-proofing skills.
Huy Nguyen Trieu
Co-Founder, CFTE
Perhaps it's not about whether AI is going to replace doctors, but whether or not this increasing reliance on AI tools is going to cause our patients to replace their trust in our doctors and our clinicians.
Dr Jasmine Ong
Principal Clinical Pharmacist, Singapore General Hospital
AI extends our capacity to document, search, compare, retrieve and connect. And human intelligence gives those observations direction and meaning.
Dr Yumeng Hou
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
The quality of AI begins with the quality of our thinking.
Dr Tian Feng See
Senior Data Scientist, Singtel
Confidence is rarely where the journey begins. Confidence is what courage earns.
Kathryn Knight
Founder & CEO, Muun AI
Singtel 8G Academy, Level 2, 8 George Street, Singapore 049144
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Telecommunications, banking, healthcare, academia, industrial AI and filmmaking.
Co-convener of Supercharged: Human Intelligence in the Age of AI, hosted at the Singtel 8G Academy in Singapore.
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