Human+: Becoming Better Humans in the Intelligent Age
AI & Humanity Series
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Synopsis
In this webinar cum fireside chat, Yen-Lu Chow, AIM’s founding executive chairman, will go one-on-one with Andy Sim, a systems thinker, change catalyst, and social innovator, to explore Andy’s new book Human+, on how we can become better humans in the Intelligence Age.
Written for anyone seeking to make sense of who we are becoming in a world where intelligence is no longer exclusively ours, the book looks beyond the race for technological capability to rediscover the unique qualities that set us apart.
The book unfolds in three parts. Part I explores how AI is transforming human agency, leadership, work, and society, while reshaping power and opportunity. Part II examines what makes us uniquely human through five defining qualities, including consciousness, empathy, creativity, moral judgment, and meaning. Part III presents the Human+ framework for harnessing complementary intelligence to advance human dignity and economic prosperity together.
At its heart, Human+ argues that becoming better humans is a choice we must make intentionally. Rather than resisting AI, it calls us to embrace it as a complementary partner, where humans lead with purpose, judgment, and values, while AI empowers with speed, scale, and efficiency.
Andy Sim
Author | Creator of Giving.sg | Systems Thinker | Change Catalyst | Social Innovator
Yen-Lu Chow
Founding Executive Chairman WholeTree Foundation / Over-The-Rainbow; Asia Institute of Mentoring | Founding Partner Fatfish MediaLab | Executive Mentor YSI SEA | Founder of the Deep Human Movement
A former Apple Distinguished Technologist, Yen-Lu is a visionary entrepreneur, award-winning technologist, venture catalyst & angel investor, mentor & advisor turned author & keynote speaker, mental wellbeing champion, social innovator & ecosystem builder, humanist and philanthropist.
As an expert and practitioner in speech recognition and language processing (with 6 international patents while leading Apple’s initiative in this area in the 1990’s), he was a pioneer in the application of AI.
As an angel investor and venture catalyst in the Singapore tech ecosystem, Yen-Lu has mentored entrepreneurs and businesses for many years. He has made significant contributions to the Singapore tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem, serving on countless startup business plan competitions internationally, government panels on innovation and entrepreneurship, and as mentor and advisor to the major universities. He co-founded a business angel fund in partnership with the Singapore government, served as a director of Business Angel Network SEA, executive mentor and adjunct professor to NUS Enterprise and mentor to INSEAD.
A champion of youth mental wellness and human wellbeing, he believes that every young person has a voice, an innate gift, a deeply held aspiration waiting to find creative fulfillment. When we nurture the seeds of these innate gifts with attention, acceptance, and love – by providing the right environment, and giving it purpose – these seeds sprout and grow, and the human spirit with its deepest aspirations finds fulfillment.
He sits at the nexus of three major social ecosystems: mental health, mentoring and sustainability, bringing extensive experience in tech and entrepreneurship to build ecosystems and mobilize communities to create positive social change. In a fast-paced world where the only constant is change, he believes there is an urgent need for each of us to draw on our strengths and creative potential as human beings to contribute towards humanity in a positive and impactful way. With the launch of his family foundation and other social impact initiatives, Yen-Lu devotes his time serving both society and the nation in his various capacities.
He is on a life mission to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, just and sustainable world.