AI Influence Profile
Ng Chee Meng
Positioning
Member of Parliament. Spoke in 6 AI-related parliamentary debates (2017–2026), most often on AI & Employment and AI in Public Sector.
Parliamentary AI record (6)
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Transition with No Jobless Growth (Debate Conclusion)
2026-05-06 · Parliament 15
The debate on the Motion "An AI Transition with No Jobless Growth" concluded on 6 May. In clarifications, WP's Andre Low stressed that strong social safety nets and urging Singaporeans to embrace AI are not zero-sum; Gerald Giam defended his proposed National AI Equity Fund as "not about a compensation for failure", with nearly half the fund invested directly in workers' skills, and pressed the Government on structurally sharing AI productivity gains. Manpower Minister Tan See Leng replied that the sharing would come through real income improvement, with SWDA setting clear KPIs tying the Enterprise Workforce Training Package and job redesign to real wages and career progression. WP's Kenneth Tiong questioned the quality of SkillsFuture courses and argued for universal access to frontier AI tools, while Mark Lee countered that Tiong's proposed 90-day mandatory notice for AI-driven role elimination is operationally ambiguous when transformation is gradual. Yeo Wan Ling asked whether job redesign would be an explicit condition of AI grants; Minister of State Jasmin Lau said the direction is committed and details would be worked out with tripartite partners. Wrapping up the debate of 7 hours 18 minutes and 24 speeches, Ng Chee Meng backed raising Jobseeker Support eligibility to the PME median income of about $8,400 and said NTUC is open on the form of support. The Motion was put and agreed to unanimously.
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Transition with No Jobless Growth (Motion Moved)
2026-05-05 · Parliament 15
NTUC Secretary-General Ng Chee Meng (Jalan Kayu) moved a parliamentary Motion on the evening of 5 May — also standing in the names of Mr Mark Lee, Mr Saktiandi Supaat and Ms Yeo Wan Ling — calling on the House to affirm that AI-enabled growth must be anchored in fairness, resilience and opportunity for all, and that Singapore must not have jobless growth. Citing NTUC surveys (one in five respondents named job security their top concern; 56% of PMEs felt they needed to upskill), he laid out four practical moves: building a Singapore-specific labour-market intelligence and foresight system; enabling enterprises to transform with AI alongside workers by scaling the Company Training Committee model (over 3,800 CTCs since 2019, benefiting more than 300,000 workers) jointly with SNEF under the new Tripartite Jobs Council; expanding training pathways such as AI-Ready SG (targeting over one million training places in the coming years); and helping displaced workers bounce back with dignity, including advance notification of retrenchments to the Government and expanding SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support coverage from the roughly $5,000 median income towards PME median income levels. The debate was adjourned to the next sitting day after his speech.
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.
MOM Committee of Supply 2026 — AI, Workforce & Career Resilience
2026-03-03 · Parliament 15
The MOM Committee of Supply debate was the centrepiece for AI and workforce issues in the Budget. Minister Tan See Leng framed AI as transforming the nature of work — not only what jobs people do, but how work is organised, skills are built, and careers evolve. Key threads: (1) AI as a gamechanger that can augment or displace workers depending on how jobs are redesigned; (2) SkillsFuture participation exceeding 600,000, with 458,000+ Singaporeans using SkillsFuture credits; (3) reframing "job redesign" as "human-with-AI job redesign", using design thinking to combine AI with human judgement, empathy and creativity; (4) mid-career PMEs face the highest risk and need career health to become mainstream, preventive and personalised; (5) generative AI poses higher risk to white-collar work than to manual / dexterity-based roles. MPs' threads: Industry Transformation Maps (ITMs), forward-looking when introduced in 2016, must be sharpened to give clear direction on AI-driven business process redesign, workforce-transition timelines and credible pathways into new roles; Ms Yeo Wan Ling argued the 2026 expansion of the Non-traditional Sources Occupation List (NTS-OL) must be coupled with productivity-linked conditions — structured training of locals, skills transfer from foreign workers, and job redesign; NMP Assoc Prof Terence Ho warned of an "AI divide" and proposed free or subsidised time-limited access to premium AI tools (the US$20–30/month tier) for mature workers, with longer-term subsidies for lower-income Singaporeans; Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim cautioned that agentic AI threatens entry-level positions and called for institutionalising the GRIT programme as a national on-the-job training subsidy.
Take-up Rate of SkillsFuture-supported AI-related Training Course
2026-02-03 · Parliament 15
MPs asked about take-up of SkillsFuture-supported AI training courses and whether targets exist for PMEs. The government replied that around 105,000 individuals participated last year, with no fixed targets but ongoing encouragement of lifelong learning backed by subsidies. MPs raised the difficulty of course selection and the cost of advanced courses, suggesting better course recommendations and more funding support for PMEs. The government said it will keep refining course guidance and industry collaboration to push more personalised training paths.
Time Spent by Teachers on Marking Assignments and Administrative Work
2017-08-01 · Parliament 13
MPs asked about teachers' time on marking and administrative work and measures to reduce the load. The government emphasised the importance of marking, outlining teaching guidance and team-based marking, with technology used to auto-mark MCQ and digital quizzes; it will continue pushing tech use and process simplification. The core debate: balancing teachers' professional responsibilities with reducing workload.