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Smart M3S will contribute to Singapore’s AI ecosystem by focusing on the human-machine relationship, enhancing existing AI initiatives in the city-state
Singapore MIT-Alliance for Research and Technology (Smart) has launched an interdisciplinary research group (IRG) aimed at tackling key social and institutional challenges around the rise of AI and new technologies.
Called Mens, Manus and Machina – How AI Empowers People, Institutions and the City in Singapore (M3S), the five-year endeavour is supported by a multi-million-dollar grant from the National Research Foundation (NRF) under its Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (Create) programme.
The project aligns with Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative and the National AI Strategy and is also part of Smart’s commitment to foster collaborative research in Singapore that generates positive impact for society.
It will bring together a diverse team of 17 professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Singapore and will also draw expertise from 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).
“As a species, humans have spent eons learning how to work effectively with each other but, at the scale of human history, we are still neophytes to computation and automation”