Research group launched to tackle AI, new tech challenges

Singapore is set to tackle social and institutional challenges regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and new technologies through a research group launched by Singapore’s MIT research enterprise, writes Sasha Karen for Channel News Network.

Launched by the Singapore MIT-Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), the Mens, Manus and Machina - How AI Empowers People, Institutions and the City in Singapore (M3S) interdisciplinary research group (IRG) will focus on the “human-machine relationship, enhancing existing AI initiatives in the city-state”, according to the enterprise.

Behind SMART M3S is 17 professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as local researchers from Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the National Robotics Programme (NRP).
Full report on the Channel Asia site