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Govt studying need for broader support to help workers stay employed

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August 26, 2025

Using AI To Enhance Labour

Govt studying need for broader support to help workers stay employed

industries and jobs. While companies must be encouraged to invest in practical AI use cases that help raise productivity, job roles that will be affected by AI must also be identified.

This will help target the upskilling and reskilling interventions required to enable workers to move into higher-value jobs enabled by AI. "We want to transform both enterprise and workforce transformation in a complementary way, so that AI becomes a tool for enhancement, and not displacement, of labour," said DPM Gan.

The Government has been renewing and refreshing its efforts at skills upgrading, he noted.

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