Future of Innovation: Research
Thought and practice leadership
X-Intelligence: Bitesize explainers
Each of the X-Intelligence explainers below summarise how SUTD is designing the future of innovation with AI, through research and practice leadership.
They span Executive Intelligence (for decision makers), Learning Intelligence (for educators and learners), as well as research and practice that cut across both.
New issues of X-Intelligence explainers will be released regularly.
Issue 11 – Flexible Intelligence: A What-If Journey Through Medical Treatment, Insurance & Rehabilitation
What if AI had been part of a rare disease journey—across medical treatment, insurance, and rehabilitation? Could it have connected the dots faster, clarified options, and reduced stress?
Issue 10 – Parent Intelligence: Learning with AI at Home
Generative AI is entering homes faster than parents can adapt. Could we equip parents to use AI as a tool, teamate, and teaching partner?
Issue 9 – Creative Intelligence: Thinking Within, On, and Beyond the Box
How can people and AI co-create to amplify innovation—and make us more creative together? Through a three-tiered model of “inside,” “on” and “outside” the box—we unlock collective creativity that soars far beyond the limits of human-only innovation.
Issue 8 – Design AI Interactions and Innovations: Strengthen Skills, Battle Deskilling
Our findings from various Design AI research converge on three insights that compel us to rethink conventional strategies.
Issue 7 – Flexible Intelligence: Stretching Skills, Creativity and Imagination
What happens when a super creative and experienced fitness instructor meets AI? “AI makes you more human, if you use it wisely”
Issue 6 – AI You Can Trust: Bridging Perceptions and Reality with Action-Oriented Insights
“Will we trust AI?” and “What must be done for us to trust AI?” In this article, we provide nine strategies to enhance trust in AI.
Issue 5 – Executive Intelligence: Don’t Try Again. Try Differently.
How do we cultivate the kind of failure mindset that leads not to safer outcomes, but to bolder innovation—especially in an AI-rich world?
Issue 4 – DesignAI Edge x SuperSkillsStack: The Future of Innovation and Resilience
How might we strengthen resilience against disruption, dislocation, and deskilling? And also nurture innovators as AI advances accelerate in weeks and months instead of years?
Issue 3 – Executive Intelligence: What AI Reveals About the Nature of Expertise
What does AI reveal about how expertise really works—and what must we do differently to thrive?
Issue 2 – Learning Intelligence: A Design AI Primer for Educators
This guide supports educators in designing activities that foster deep cognitive engagement, reduce AI dependence, and encourage student reflection and self-awareness.