Post by The AI Collective

One of our favourite things about Humans in AI Week is that no two chapters did it the same way. Our Kuala Lumpur team threw a speed dating night all about what AI is doing to our love lives. People genuinely opened up about their green flags and red flags and what they're hoping to find in someone, and the guys closed things out by handing over little handmade flower cookies with their names on them, which said it better than we could: that however clever the tech gets, it will never beat sitting across from a real person. Pretoria took it somewhere completely different, gathering at Barnard for an evening on the ethics of it all, with Edmund Terem Ugar, PhD, pulling everyone deep into AI, social robotics and moral agency, the kind of talk people were still thinking about long after they'd left. Singapore zoomed all the way out to ask what it really takes to build an AI ecosystem that lasts, and the room didn't just sit and nod along; it got involved, working through how to grow the chapter, how AI is reshaping careers and how attached we are all quietly getting to the tech itself. Chappy Asel summed it up with a line we keep coming back to, that we're all stewards of the future in our own small way. Three nights that looked nothing alike, and still the same thing held them together: that this only really works when people keep showing up for each other, and that's the part we can't stop thinking about. Viteshen Naidoo Edmund Terem Ugar, PhD Aaliyah Razak Tony Oche Maria S. Stuart Tan MSc., MBA The AI Collective: Asia Pacific Simon Lea Frederic Bonifassy Kenny Tay Singapore AI Association (SAIA) | 新加坡AI协会 Alex Hau