MDDI 演讲稿 · 2024-10-21
Janil Puthucheary 高级政务部长在欧洲商会《AI：超越炒作》报告发布会上的演讲
Speech by SMS Janil Puthucheary at Eurocham AI: Beyond the Buzz Report Launch
要点
- • 新欧合作的两个数字支柱：2023 年 2 月《新欧数码伙伴关系》（EUSDP）+ 2024 年 7 月谈判结束的《新欧数码贸易协定》（EUSDTA）。
- • EuroCham 2024 AI 调研：近 80% 受访公司在用 AI 或开发 AI 应用——常见领域：客户体验、产品创新、销售/ERP/HR/合规。60% 的 EuroCham 会员公司已主动开展员工 AI 培训。
- • Smart Nation 2.0 + 国家 AI 战略 2.0——重点是「与 AI 共增长」（Growth in the age of AI）。
- • AI 治理工具栈：2019 年《Model AI Governance Framework》→ 2024 年覆盖生成式 AI 的更新版；AI Verify（测试框架与工具包）+ Project Moonshot（扩展到生成式 AI）+ AI Verify Foundation。SAP、Bosch 等 EuroCham 会员是贡献者。
完整译文（中文）
MDDI 英文原文译文 · 翻译日期：2026-05-03
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数码发展及新闻部高级政务部长 Janil Puthucheary 博士在 EuroCham《AI：超越炒作》报告发布会上的演讲（2024 年 10 月 21 日）
各位阁下、
各位嘉宾、
各位女士、先生：
1. 早安——我很高兴出席今天上午 EuroCham 新加坡《AI: Beyond the Buzz》报告的发布——它汇集了新加坡与欧盟跨境的 AI 知识库。
2. 新加坡与欧盟有稳健的经济关系——并在多领域有长期合作。最近几年我们把这种合作扩展到数字领域。去年（2023 年）2 月——我们达成了《新欧数码伙伴关系》（EUSDP）——为新欧之间所有数字合作提供总体框架。双方同意在「AI 发展、研究与治理上的创新」等领域加强协作。在此基础上——我们今年（2024 年）7 月就《新欧数码贸易协定》（EUSDTA）的谈判达成结论。这将为「促进数字贸易的开放与安全数据流动」提供保障。
3. 我相信——「数码伙伴关系」与「数码贸易协定」将增强商业机会、为众多在新加坡与欧洲市场运营的企业带来商业上有意义的成果。同时——这份「数码贸易协定」也将为我们的公司与人民——在数字经济中交易——提供法律确定性与信心。
4. 新加坡与欧盟——作为 AI 的全球先行者。我们对「AI 是什么」也有共同关切。我们都希望培育 AI 创新——并通过良好治理确保其可信与安全。
5. 随着 AI 持续快速进步——我们的人民与企业必须以正确的能力与技能装备好——以发挥这一变革性技术的全部潜能。
6. 本月早些时候——黄循财总理推出了刷新版「Smart Nation 2.0」——我们并非从零开始。这一刷新愿景描绘了——我们希望新加坡继续成为「人人能在数字时代蓬勃」的社会。在其他目标之外——我们重申了对「在 AI 时代中实现增长」的承诺。这意味着——通过赋能企业积极投入并从 AI 中获益——推动 AI 发展、培育有活力的 AI 生态——让个人与社会都能成长——并把这种成长「做深」（不只是 AI 的「扩张」）。比如——我们与领先科技玩家合作——在 IMDA「SMEs Go Digital」之下——为 SME 提升 AI 能力。这对那些通常缺乏资源与能力的 SME 尤其有用——把「即用、可负担的 AI 工具」纳入业务流程。
7. 去年 12 月——我们启动了《国家 AI 战略 2.0》。最值得关注的是「2.0」——我们之前已有过一版《国家 AI 战略》——这一次借助新进展做了更新。刷新版的国家 AI 战略凸显了我们的承诺与雄心——构建 AI 生态、推动 AI 应用的创新与采用。要做到这点——必须有产业的积极参与。我也很高兴——自那之后我们在「企业 AI 采用」上取得了不错的进展。例如——EuroCham 2024 年 AI 调研发现——近 80% 的受访公司在使用 AI 或正在开发 AI 应用。当前最常见的应用领域是——客户体验、产品创新，以及销售、企业资源规划（ERP）、人力资源（HR）、合规等业务职能。这些是「门槛相对较低、收益相对清晰」的领域。
8. 在迈向「智慧国 2.0」愿景的过程中——我们必须把 AI 部署到解决「真实世界问题、给社会交付影响」上。为此——公司在新加坡设立 AI 卓越中心——既构建 AI 能力、也开发能产生 ROI 的业务用例。我也很高兴——EuroCham 会员已经在「先进制造、金融服务、智慧城市、教育」等显著领域开发出有说服力的用例。我们也设立了「制造业行业级 AI 卓越中心」（AIMfg）——目标是加速一个「整合 AI 一直颇具挑战的行业」中的 AI 采用。收益是真实存在的——我们也知道——这是必须用力的事。
9. 不只是各行业的组织——能从「有效部署 AI」中获益。员工——不只是科技领域的——也将在「增强 AI 技能与生产力」时获益。
10. 自去年我们刷新版《国家 AI 战略 2.0》启动以来——我们看到许多产业伙伴站出来——提供培训倡议与课程——壮大 AI 实务者与 AI 使用者的池子。其中——60% 的 EuroCham 会员公司已主动落地员工 AI 培训计划——更多公司计划在不久的将来这么做。
11. 对那些资源不足以建立内部培训计划的公司、或处于「非数字原生行业」的公司——政府提供了多种途径——为我们的劳动力做培训、升级与转型——让他们保持适应力。比如——「信息与通信工作转型地图」（JTM）下的培训伙伴——为有意升级的员工提供约 200 门 AI 相关课程。我们跨行业工作——不仅提供框架——还直接为公司（尤其是较小的公司）提供资源——服务他们的员工与整个国家。截至去年 12 月——已有超过 1,600 人接受培训成为「自信的 AI 使用者」。
12. 我强烈鼓励企业——投资于「为员工装备 AI 技能与知识——为 AI 驱动的世界做好准备」。借助赋能你的劳动力理解并借力 AI——你不仅强化他们在演变工作场所中蓬勃的能力——你也把自家业务摆在「资本化 AI 带来的变革性机会」的位置上。
13. 最后——简短谈一谈新加坡对 AI 治理的方法——以及企业如何借力可获得的资源、或为它的发展做出贡献。
14. 我们相信——AI 是一项强大的工具——为我们打开通往新可能的大门。但我们也意识到——AI 在经济与社会的扩散——伴随新的风险。
15. 为以「安全可信」的方式最大化 AI 收益——新加坡通过「有原则的方法、务实的工具、产业的参与」——回应 AI 风险。我们同样不是从零开始。我们 2019 年发布了《Model AI Governance Framework》——为开发者与产业提供「负责任使用 AI」的一组原则与务实指引。今年早些时候——我们发布了更新版，回应生成式 AI 的新风险。在务实层面——我们也开发了「AI Verify」——一个测试框架与工具包——让开发者测试与验证自家 AI 系统的安全性。今年通过「Project Moonshot」——我们把 AI Verify 工具包从传统 AI 扩展到生成式 AI。我们还成立「AI Verify Foundation」——把产业与科学社群中的利益相关方聚到一起——协作改进 AI Verify。许多公司——包括 EuroCham 会员 SAP、Bosch——都为这一框架做出贡献。
16. 所有这些努力——我们做过的一切——若没有像在座这样的产业伙伴的专长、支持与合作——都不可能。
17. 随着 AI 持续演化——我希望企业能继续与政府紧密合作——创造机会、交付影响、应对这一空间中出现的复杂挑战。
18. 请加入我们——走在 AI 创新前沿——跨行业部署有影响力的应用——投资培训倡议升级你们劳动力的 AI 能力——并为新加坡的 AI 安全与治理努力做出贡献。
19. 谢谢——我也期待稍后炉边对话中详细讨论公私合作。
英文原文
MDDI 官网原始记录 · 抓取日期：2026-05-02
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Speech by Dr Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information, at Eurocham’s AI: Beyond the Buzz Report Launch on 21 October 2024
Excellencies,
Distinguished guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
1. Good morning, and I am very happy join you this morning for the launch of EuroCham Singapore’s AI: Beyond the Buzz report, which compiles the knowledge base of AI across Singapore and the EU.
2. Singapore and the EU share a strong economic relationship and have longstanding cooperation across many domains. We have expanded this cooperation into the digital domain in recent years. In February last year (2023), we concluded the EU-Singapore Digital Partnership (EUSDP) which provides an overarching framework for all digital cooperation between the EU and Singapore. Both sides have agreed to strengthen collaboration in areas like promoting innovation in AI development, research, and governance. Building on this, we have concluded negotiations on the EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement (EUSDTA) earlier in July (2024). This will enable the open and secure data flows that facilitate digital trade.
3. I am confident that both the Digital Partnership and Digital Trade Agreement will enhance business opportunities and create commercially meaningful outcomes for the many businesses operating across the Singaporean and European markets. At the same time, this Digital Trade Agreement will also provide our companies and people the legal certainty and confidence to transact in the digital economy.
4. Singapore and the EU, as global frontrunners in AI. We also share common interests on what AI is. We seek to foster AI innovation, while ensuring its trustworthiness and safety through good governance.
5. As AI continues to advance rapidly, our people and businesses will need to be adequately equipped with the right capabilities and skills, to harness the full potential of this transformative technology.
6. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong launched our refreshed Smart Nation 2.0 – we’re not starting from ground zero. This refreshed vision lays out our vision for Singapore to remain a society where everyone can thrive in the digital age. Amongst other goals, we reaffirmed our commitment to Growth in the age of AI. This means advancing the development of AI and fostering a vibrant AI ecosystem, by empowering our businesses to actively engage with and benefit from AI for growth of us as individuals and as society, and deepening this growth – not just AI expansion. For example, we have partnered with leading technology players to raise AI capabilities of our small and medium enterprises (SMEs) under the IMDA’s SMEs Go Digital initiative . This is especially useful for SMEs which typically lack the resources and capabilities, to incorporate ready-to-use and affordable AI tools into their business processes.
7. Last December, we launched our National AI Strategy 2.0 . Again, the most notable thing about it was the “2.0”; we’ve had a previous National AI Strategy, and we’ve had the opportunity to refresh it in light of all the developments. And this refreshed National AI underscores our commitment and ambition for harnessing AI by building our AI ecosystem, and driving the innovation and adoption of AI applications. Achieving this involves active industry participation in AI deployment and development, and I am heartened that we have since made good progress in boosting AI adoption among companies. For example, EuroCham’s 2024 AI Survey found that nearly 80% of companies polled are using AI, or are developing AI applications. Customer Experience, Product Innovation, and business functions such as sales, enterprise resource planning, HR, and compliance are currently the most common areas of AI implementation. These are areas where the barriers are relatively low and the gains are relatively clearer.
8. As we progress in our Smart Nation 2.0 vision, we will need to deploy AI to solve real-world problems and deliver impact to society. To this end, companies have established AI Centres of Excellence in Singapore to build up AI capabilities as well as develop AI solutions for business uses cases that deliver returns on investment. I am encouraged that EuroCham members have developed compelling use cases in noteworthy areas like advanced manufacturing, financial services, smart cities, and education. We have also established the Sectoral AI Centre of Excellence for Manufacturing (AIMfg) , which aims to help accelerate AI adoption in a sector where integrating AI has been challenging. The gains are there, and we know this is something that we need to work on.
9. It is not just organisations across sectors that can stand to benefit immensely from the effective deployment of AI. Workers – not just those in the technology space – also stand to benefit when they augment their AI skills and productivity.
10. We have seen many industry partners step up to offer training initiatives and courses to build up our pool of AI Practitioners and AI Users, since the launch of our refreshed National AI Strategy 2.0 last year. This includes 60% of EuroCham member companies who have taken the initiative to implement training programmes to upskill employees in AI, with more planning to do so in the near future.
11. For companies with few resources to implement such internal training programmes, or those in non-digitally native sectors, the Government has introduced various avenues to train, upskill, and reskill our workforce so that they remain adaptable. For instance, our training partners under the Information & Communications Jobs Transformation Map offer around 200 AI-related courses for workers looking to upskill themselves. We worked across industry sectors, not just providing frameworks but directly providing resources for companies – especially smaller companies – to serve their workers and our country as a whole. As of December last year, over 1,600 people have been trained to be confident users of AI.
12. I strongly encourage companies to invest with equipping your employees with AI skill and knowledge to prepare them for an AI-driven world. By empowering your workforce with the tools to understand and leverage AI, you not only enhance their ability to thrive in an evolving workplace, but also position your business to capitalise on the transformative opportunities that AI brings.
13. Finally, let me briefly touch on Singapore’s approach to AI governance, and how businesses can tap on available resources or contribute to its development.
14. We believe AI is a powerful tool that opens doors to new possibilities. However, we recognise that the proliferation of AI across our economy and society comes with new risks.
15. To maximise the benefits that AI can bring in a safe and trustworthy manner, Singapore seeks to address AI’s risks through a principled approach, practical tools, and industry involvement. And again, we are not starting from ground zero. We launched our Model AI Governance Framework in 2019, which provides a set of principles and practical guidance for developers and industry to use AI responsibly. And earlier this year, we released an updated version that addresses the new risks of generative AI. On the practical front, we also developed AI Verify which is a testing framework and toolkit that allows developers to test and verify the safety of their AI systems. We extended the AI Verify toolkit from traditional AI to generative AI with Project Moonshot this year. We also set up the AI Verify Foundation to bring together stakeholders from across industry and the scientific community, to collaborate and help improve AI Verify. Many companies, including Eurocham members like SAP and Bosch, have contributed to the framework.
16. All of these efforts, everything that we have done, would not have been possible without the expertise, support, and partnership of Industry partners like yourself.
17. As AI continues to evolve, I hope that companies can continue to work closely with Government to create opportunities, deliver impact, and address the complex challenges that arise in this space.
18. Please, join us in being at the forefront of AI innovation and deploying impactful applications across sectors, investing in training initiatives to upskill your workforce in AI, and contributing to AI safety and governance efforts in Singapore.
19. Thank you and I look forward to discussing public-private partnership in detail at the fireside chat later.