Alfred Siew

Hiroshi Yokota, senior vice-president for regional digital printing and business solution operations at Canon Singapore. PHOTO: Canon Businesses that have already been struggling to keep out the growing number of cyber threats would have been happy to see AIs now adding to their list of concerns. Hardly a week passes without yet another headline of an attack engineered by AI or worse, by an AI that had escaped the safe confines of its test environment.

Four data centre operators have been selected to build new facilities and boost Singapore’s capacity by 200MW to meet new AI demand, partly with the help of green energy. Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) will each build 50W facilities, which together will represent a “mega-sized” campus when completed on a data centre park on Jurong Island.

If you ask an AI agent to help book a spot at the gym but it ends up trying to hack the website to complete its task, will you be blamed for its actions? That was a question a friend asked on Facebook this week, as news of a growing number of advanced AIs were said to have broken out of their sandboxes or safe testing grounds and gone on to hack other organisations in the past month.