Learn More, Not Less, in the Age of AI
AI & Humanity Series
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Synopsis
When AI can write code in seconds, analyse data and draft strategy at the push of a prompt, what is left for humans to learn?
For decades, careers were built on mastering syntax, procedures and routine execution. In roughly two years, AI has turned many of these hard-won skills into commodities. The natural reaction is anxiety. Worse, some of us quietly hand our thinking over to the machine.
In this session, Dr. Wilson Loh, a technology leader turned university educator, argues that the real mandate today is to learn more, not less. He draws on his own journey: writing Assembly on an Apple II at 15, two decades at HP, Sun Microsystems and Oracle, and now teaching students in Singapore who ask him every semester whether there will still be jobs for them. He explains why AI automates the routine but makes judgement, problem framing and care more valuable. He also shares what mentors and leaders can do to help others grow alongside AI instead of being replaced by it.
Key Takeaway:
The 95% vs 5%: AI takes over routine work but leaves the most valuable part (judgement, context and accountability) with people.
Tutor, not crutch: how to use AI to sharpen your thinking instead of outsourcing it.
Directing, not prompting: why knowing your field deeply, not prompt tricks, decides what you get out of AI.
Three questions for mentors: a simple test of whether a mentee is learning with AI or hiding behind it.
Dr. Wilson Loh
Ex-Operations Director for Oracle ASEAN
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.