Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
9-2025
Abstract
In "Where is Singapore's AI regulation headed?" (Issues, Summer 2025), Manoj Harjani starts by recounting its delicate balancing act in governing artificial intelligence. The city-state is able to maintain credibility on the global stage while remaining pragmatically grounded in technical experimentation, maintaining policy realism without overcommitting to rigid legal frameworks. The choice to adopt a regulatory “light touch” is often framed as a way to maintain flexibility, avoid overregulation, and enable innovation. But this obscures the extent to which this posture is itself a political and economic settlement—one that reinforces Singapore’s position in the global digital economy by facilitating capital and technology flows rather than seeking to govern them more directly.
Discipline
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Asian Studies | Science and Technology Policy
Research Areas
Innovation, Technology and the Law
Publication
Issues in Science and Technology
Volume
42
Issue
1
First Page
14
Last Page
14
ISSN
0748-5492
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Citation
ALLEN, J.G..
A difficult act to maintain. (2025). Issues in Science and Technology. 42, (1), 14-14.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4730
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