AI Influence Profile
Choo Pei Ling
Positioning
Member of Parliament. Spoke in 6 AI-related parliamentary debates (2025–2026), most often on AI Governance & Regulation and AI in Public Sector.
Parliamentary AI record (6)
Ensuring Safety of Frontier AI Models Deployed in Singapore, and Setting Up Framework for Tracking and Reporting Serious AI Incidents
2026-10-07 · Parliament 15
Dr Charlene Chen, Mr Alex Yam, Dr Choo Pei Ling and Mr Yip Hon Weng asked the Minister for Digital Development and Information about the AI Safety Institute's ability to independently test frontier AI models, cross-sector incident-reporting frameworks, and the resilience of government systems following an unauthorised-access incident involving an autonomous AI agent in Australia. Senior Minister of State Tan Kiat How replied, on the Minister's behalf, that existing cybersecurity, data protection and critical-information-infrastructure frameworks already apply to agentic AI systems, that the Government is trialling responsible agentic AI deployment through GovTech and other agencies, and that these frameworks are under review for strengthening, without committing to a specific threshold or timeline for mandatory frontier AI safety testing.
Assessment of Singapore's Digital Systems' Resilience Against Agentic AI Behaviours
2026-10-06 · Parliament 15
Ms Valerie Lee, Mr Saktiandi Supaat, Mr Fadli Fawzi and other MPs asked the Minister for Digital Development and Information about the Singapore AI Safety Institute's testing capabilities, the follow-up to Singapore's endorsement of the international call to control frontier AI models, and safeguards against agentic AI risks in the Public Service. Mrs Josephine Teo replied that Singapore takes a risk-based, multi-layered approach, that AISI is building technical capabilities to evaluate advanced AI systems, and that no agency has so far received a report of a cyberattack involving an unsupervised AI agent.
Energy Crisis, AI Data-Centre Demand and the Impact on Hiring Prospects
2026-05-07 · Parliament 15
Yio Chu Kang MP Yip Hon Weng and Bukit Panjang MP Liang Eng Hwa asked how the Middle East-triggered energy crisis is affecting hiring prospects. Manpower Minister Tan See Leng said the labour market remains resilient for now but firms have turned cautious — the share intending to hire in the next three months fell from 54.6% in February 2026 to 44.6% in March, with early signs of stabilisation in April. On longer-term structural impact, he said the crisis would accelerate shifts already underway (supply-chain diversification, digitalisation) and pointed directly to AI's energy implications: "with the move towards a pervasive adoption of AI, there will be a need for even more energy to drive the data centres and the high compute requirements of these AI data centres. Energy is really the new currency." Dr Choo Pei Ling asked whether workforce planning is adapting to persistent uncertainty from overlapping trade fragmentation, technological change and sectoral restructuring; the Minister answered "a resounding yes," citing over 12 hours of debate across two days (seven on AI).
MOH Committee of Supply 2026 — Generative AI for Clinical Documentation
2026-03-04 · Parliament 15
During the MOH Committee of Supply debate, MP Dr Choo Pei Ling delivered a focused speech on "healthcare technology and AI". She argued that clinicians face a triple burden of clinical complexity, administrative load, and coordination demands; generative AI can assist with clinical documentation, while clinical decision-support systems can synthesise complex information. She called for accelerating AI deployment in healthcare and stressed that scaling from pilots to routine clinical practice requires solving the rollout barriers.
MDDI Committee of Supply 2026 — AI as Strategic Advantage
2026-03-02 · Parliament 15
The most AI-intensive debate in Budget 2026. The MDDI GPC delivered coordinated scrutiny across six themes: AI value proposition, digital capabilities, ethical governance, inclusive growth, infrastructure and cybersecurity, and a high-trust digital society. Minister Josephine Teo announced: (1) support for 100,000 workers to become "AI bilingual", starting with accountancy and legal professions and scaled via TeSA; (2) the world's first Model Governance Framework for Agentic AI; (3) Singapore will host the second International Scientific Exchange on AI Safety to update the "Singapore Consensus"; (4) targeted action to close the SME AI gap so that frontier firms do not pull away. MP focus areas: deepfake regulation (Christopher de Souza), AI media literacy (Fadli Fawzi), data centre investment competition, AI impact on PMEs, and cybersecurity against AI-enabled threats.
Addressing Teachers' Stress Levels and Supporting Their Mental Well-being
2025-11-04 · Parliament 15
MPs raised teachers' high stress levels and mental-health support, with concern over the low share of young teachers and their non-teaching workload. The Education Minister stressed the noble responsibility of the teaching profession, acknowledged heavy workload, and committed to reviewing and improving the allocation of non-teaching tasks to safeguard teacher well-being. The central debate is how to effectively reduce teacher load and retain young teachers.