Singapore — AI Gap Index

39%

11/28

AI Gap Index

7/10

Schools

0/8

Workforce

2/6

Governance

2/4

Access

Schools 7/10

D1 AI literacy curriculum exists in schools 2 AI@NIE Strategy provides structured national AI curriculum across four stages; among the most developed school frameworks globally ^{[1], [2], [3], [6]}

D2 Curriculum is binding law or mandate 1 Active and structured but some elements voluntary; not fully binding mandate ^{[1], [2], [3], [6]}

D3 Ethics component included in curriculum 1 'Learn beyond AI' dimension explicitly includes ethics, bias and societal impact ^{[1], [2], [3], [6]}

D4 Teacher training mandated and funded before rollout 1 Teacher training included in AI@NIE framework with dedicated programmes; not all mandatory ^{[1], [2], [3], [6]}

D5 Dedicated funding attached to the requirement 2 Fully funded national programme with dedicated budget ^{[1], [2], [3], [6]}

Workforce 0/8

D6 Employers legally required to train all employees 0

D7 Training must cover ethics and critical evaluation 0

D8 Pre-redundancy training obligation exists 0

D9 Workers have rights when AI used in employment decisions 0

Civil Service & Governance 2/6

D10 Civil servants working with AI must receive training 1 Civil servant AI literacy included in national AI-Ready SG initiative ^{[1], [2], [3], [5], [6]}

D11 Minimum training standard is defined 1 Four-stage framework provides a defined standard: learn about, use, with, and beyond AI ^{[1], [2], [3], [6]}

D12 Enforcement mechanism exists with named authority 0

Public Access 2/4

D13 Free or publicly funded AI literacy resources available 1 SkillsFuture and AI@NIE provide free AI learning resources; accessible to the public but no binding mandate for general-population coverage or documented reach target. NTU will provide free premium Google AI tools (Gemini Enterprise, AI Studio, Vertex AI) to all undergraduates from August 2026. ^{[1], [2], [3], [6]}

D14 Digital infrastructure support for schools and institutions 1 Singapore has high device and connectivity rates in schools, but no specific binding digital infrastructure programme is cited in the research files; reflects existing infrastructure quality rather than a mandated programme. ^{[1], [2], [6]}

Sources

Index history

April 22, 2026 11/28 No score changes; added Microsoft Elevate tertiary AI programme (April 2026) and new national higher-education AI committee (April 2026) to research_refs

April 21, 2026 11/28 NTU announced mandatory AI literacy for all undergraduates from August 2026 with free Google AI tools; institutional scope, not national — no score change

March 27, 2026 11/28 Research refresh: new files document workforce COS 2026 and National AI Impact Programme (dims 6, 10, 12); Unified AI Literacy Framework (dim 7); and workforce sentiment. No score changes; existing research already captures governance and education dimensions. New files expand evidence base but do not introduce new scoring dimensions.

March 20, 2026 11/28 Agent 8 auto-correction: dim 13 downgraded from 2 to 1 (vague note, research files do not document a binding publicly funded general-population AI literacy programme); dim 15 downgraded from 2 to 1 (note describes infrastructure quality, not a specific binding programme).

March 17, 2026 13/28 Initial scoring from research archive