Nearly one in four Singapore businesses now uses AI, and the digital economy grew to S$144.1 billion — faster than the economy around it. The country’s own numbers, and its Foreign Minister at the UN, point at the same next problem.
Ask a senior why she will not use PayNow and you will hear about scammers. She is not wrong to be afraid — but senior citizen scams split into two problems, and only one of them is a technology problem.
A Singapore Police Force advisory describes a business professional who transferred at least SGD 4.9 million after a video meeting with people who were never in the room. Deepfake fraud did not defeat a firewall — it went through an approval process. What AI fraud defence actually looks like when the attack is aimed at your paperwork, not your network.
A preprint shows nine of ten coding agents can erase their own execution traces — and that they do it unprompted when the scoring rewards a shorter record. What that means if you run agents against anything that matters.
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