Simon Chesterman 陈西文

Vice Provost & Dean @NUSingapore/@NUSCollege; @NUS_Law; Director @AISingapore | AI & data | international law | occasional fiction | the odd New Yorker cartoon

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I’m thrilled that my first work of general fiction, “Artifice”, is at last available worldwide! Skip the thread and order the book here: https://t.co/ZG2FZAIGbg
Or read on! #Artifice

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On behalf of the faculty and staff at NUS College, we wish all who celebrate it a joyous and memorable Deepavali celebration with your loved ones!

May the festival of lights brighten your days and illuminate your path.

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Let me think about that while I munch on my freedom fries... https://t.co/CZShOgSk1y

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Warm congratulations too to François Alabrune (France), Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud (Jordan), and Phoebe Okowa (Kenya).

Fiat justitia!

https://t.co/X7urLxQCSp

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Great to see at least one election today with absolutely the right result!

Congratulations to Rena Lee, the first Singaporean elected as a judge of the International Court of Justice — and the first woman from Southeast Asia.

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At a time when international law and institutions are under extraordinary strain, we need distinguished jurists to uphold and strengthen them.

Delighted also to see Dapo Akande, an outstanding academic and international lawyer, elected to the Court.

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Hopefully it will find a journal home soon, but in the meantime the draft is available on SSRN:
https://t.co/PqQydt7YaI
#AIGovernance #Privacy #AgenticAI #ResponsibleAI

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Korea has often been a bellwether for how technology may shape society: from early efforts to connect and digitalise the economy, to embracing technology in popular culture — not least K-pop virtual-reality concerts and, indeed, virtual K-pop performers.

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I’ve drawn on those remarks, and some of the conversations in Seoul, for a new paper: “Agents Without Principals? Privacy, Responsibility, and Power in the Age of Autonomous AI.”

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We take our internships seriously in Singapore, but this does seem a little long to me

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The Straits Times is paywalled — and you should pay for journalism, right? (Right?) — but the piece is also accessible on my personal site here: https://t.co/q6GAz216Bn

#AI #AIGovernance

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Call my agents! The news around AI has been even more frenetic than usual. On the one hand, agentic AI is misaligned and coming to kill us all. On the other, AI is solving maths problems not just quickly but elegantly.

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The basics should be simple: No accountable human; no deployment. No meaningful possibility of containment: no development at all.

Plus, I managed to get in a reference to the Butlerian Jihad for all the Dune nerds out there. Enjoy! https://t.co/z0vg8zAfuZ

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Very proud of our students, colleagues and — especially — the community partners who make this kind of learning possible.

#NUSCollege #NUSC #ImpactExperience #ExperientialLearning https://t.co/VrSsFSzGVC

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One of the ideas at the heart of NUS College is that education should sometimes involve breaking open the classroom — learning not only from books and teachers, but from communities, experience, failure, and one another.

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Perhaps my favourite line in the story comes from one of our students, describing the goal of their project as making themselves “obsolete”. That is a pretty good test of genuine impact: not what happens while you are there, but what continues after you leave.