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: Dr Daniel Chan | 6 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Asst Prof Daniel Rabetti | 3 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Asst Prof Nur Hani Zainal | 28 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: By Dr Chew Han Ei, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Governance and Economy Cluster at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS; and Prof Lim Sun Sun, Vice President for Partnerships and Engagement and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication and Technology at the College of Integrative Studies at SMU | 27 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: By Assoc Prof Liu Nan from the Centre for Quantitative Medicine and Director of the Duke-NUS AI + Medical Sciences Initiative at Duke-NUS Medical School; and Ms Jasmine Ong from SingHealth | 14 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: By Dr Chew Han Ei, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Governance and Economy, from the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS; and Assoc Prof Vincent Chua from the Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at NUS | 14 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: By Mr Nicholas Thomas, Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS | 13 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: By Asst Prof Reuben Ng from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS and Lead Scientist at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk at NUS | 8 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Nguyen Tran Bao Phuong, Research Fellow, and Tran Thi Ngoc My, Asia Competitiveness Institute, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy | 7 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Wang Gungwu | 2 October 2025