
Christopher Cheok
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Jul 8, 2026
AI and the Singaporean worker
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David LeungGUEST
And then relate and then you embed it as part of your life because this is going to change the way we live.

Christopher CheokGUEST
I really practiced for three decades and I've seen waves of technology take all this impact.

Christopher CheokGUEST
I can tell you the last time, now it's AI, but 20 years ago, it was switching from the overhead projector.

Christopher CheokGUEST
So for the teaching industry, it was a switch from the OHP to Microsoft Word.
S3E6: AI and the Singaporean worker
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So I'm wondering, is, what people are, are worried about, are they worrying about losing their job, or are they actually worried about whether they'll matter anymore? You know, it's, it's a different nuance.

Christopher CheokGUEST
I, I think AI will impact, um, the, different industries in different ways, and it'll be uneven.

Christopher CheokGUEST
And at different levels of the organization, I think right now the, uh, junior jobs are at, at risk, and maybe the more senior jobs, like management, may be less at risk, because it requires more judgment, more human, less transaction.

Christopher CheokGUEST
Um, I was just telling my student just now that anything that's man-made, any industry that's man-made is higher, at higher risk because AI can replicate some of these more human-type processes.

Christopher CheokGUEST
Whereas anything that's more human, uh, interaction and relational will be less impacted in the, in the near term.

Christopher CheokGUEST
And even for mental health, uh, many of our patients, even though we give them digital tools and give the digital self-help, they still want to talk to us.
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For you, Chris, if someone is, is watching this, and they are genuinely anxious because of the uncertainty, and it might not have anything to do with not wanting to reskill or maybe not even being able to reskill in, in, in some situations, just, it's just uncertainty, what kind of practical advice can you give this individual?
