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In a post-budget edition of "The Usual Place podcast”, SMU Assistant Professor of Political Science (Education) Nathan Peng said that artificial intelligence (AI) has made certain aspects of education a lot more accessible, but added that it comes with a “tinge of inequality” as parents with better skills and education are better able to guide their children on the use of AI. Asst Prof Peng said that some in the lower- to middle-income groups may also feel they are not in as good a position to capitalise on the advantages that AI can bring, and they therefore feel vulnerable. On the enhancements to the ComLink+ scheme, he said that while wages for the lower- and middle-income groups have gone up and Singapore’s macro numbers are “very sound”, those in these groups do not always feel that their lives have improved as much as their rising wages because those who have more resources have poured even more into giving their children a leg-up.
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