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Professor Yow Wei Quin’s commentary on the role of AI in education highlights both its potential to enhance learning and student wellbeing, and the need to preserve critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and the central role of educators in a human-centred approach.

Professor Yow Wei Quin writes that successful technologies need to understand people’s needs and should be created for people. This is why the social sciences can play an important role in enabling the development of more human-centred AI.

The first episode of Channel 8’s a 4-part series “AI Got Me” focusses on AI & Education. Professor Yow Wei Quin, Associate Professor Foong Shaohui and various SUTD students are featured in the episode.

With Singapore increasing its funding for social sciences and humanities research to $556 million over the next five years, Professor Yow Wei Quin shares her view on how this can benefit the HASS research ecosystem.

SUTD supercharges Design and AI degree programme to create human-centred solutions, with President Professor Phoon Kok Kwang highlighting its role in training design and AI innovators for real-world challenges.

Professor Yow Wei Quin writes about how education systems must evolve in order for human-AI co-evolution to take place.

Professor Yow Wei Quin shares about a visit to a wellness community in Tianjin and how a pilot introduction of AI-based cognitive games could fill a gap by providing structured, trackable cognitive stimulation among the elderly without replacing human caregivers.

Associate Professor Yow Wei Quin shares some insights into how positive attitudes towards ageing and active engagement in cognitive activities can help seniors remain healthier and more mentally alert.

At Bishan Home for the Intellectually Disabled, SUTD’s Professor Yow Wei Quin is developing AMI Intelli, an AI system that estimates residents’ cognitive and socio-emotional states through gameplay. At SUTD, Professor Low Hong Yee and her team are creating Neatsens, a line of smart knitted garments that double as motion trackers.

Professor Yow Wei Quin’s commentary on how Ami brings warmth to technology—showing that AI can care, connect, and empower individuals with intellectual disabilities.