12 September 2025 AI literacy / singapore / governance / applied intelligence
Why AI literacy events matter more than ever.
AI is not new. It has cycled between hype and AI winter since the 1950s. What is new is the scale of the bet, and the fact that the people making decisions about it often have no shared vocabulary for what they are actually buying. That is why the literacy events matter.
Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse, 12 September 2025, after an AI literacy gathering at Chijmes in Singapore.
The room at Chijmes was not aligned. People argued openly, and that was the point. In a space as fluid as AI, the most useful events are not the ones that hand out conclusions. They are the ones that surface the disagreements an organisation has not yet noticed it has.
Ian Chapman-Banks opened by reminding everyone that AI is not new, only newly scaled. The piece picks up from there and works through what I think AI literacy actually means for senior leaders right now, and why I keep showing up to gatherings like this one rather than writing them off as networking with extra slides.