CAG Seminar

The Governance Challenges of Managing AI

Recent events of AI "going rogue", with models engaging in threatening activity and faking human identities, have given rise to concern among the public and policymakers alike that the barreling pace of AI diffusion and adoption calls for greater state intervention against advanced models. This is expressed through two parallel lines of effort: increased governmental oversight and mandatory reporting regimes, and export controls that add to a growing armory of trade restrictions already driving global fragmentation. Both are contingent on assumptions of how the technology is built, diffused, and used. These assumptions, however, might fail to appreciate its functional limits, its idiosyncrasies, and the transnational networks that sustain its development. Do the fundamental challenges of AI governance lie in the policies themselves, or in the narratives that shape them?

The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy's Centre on Asia and Globalisation and the Hinrich Foundation jointly present a panel drawing perspectives across policy, tech, and trade to probe the role of governance in one of the most consequential drivers of the modern economy.

Hinrich Foundation Centre

8 Eu Tong Sen Street,

#25-89, The Central,

Singapore 059818

Tue 13 October 2026
02:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Max Smeets

Max Smeets

Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Co-Director, Virtual Routes

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Chuin Wei Yap

Chuin Wei Yap

Program Director, International Trade Research, Hinrich Foundation ; Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Asia and Globalisation

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Ng Pak Shun

Ng Pak Shun

Chief Executive Officer, International Business, and Chief Corporate Officer at Singapore Institute of Management; Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Asia and Globalisation

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Miguel Gomez

Miguel Gomez

Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Asia and Globalisation

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