AI Singapore is pleased to announce the launch of the AI Research and Governance Joint Call 2025. We invite proposals that advance the state of the art in fundamental AI research and AI governance towards the following themes:

Theme One: Discrimination in Life Opportunities

The increasing reliance on algorithms and automated systems in decision-making has the potential to exacerbate discrimination by perpetuating biases present in historical data or algorithms. The goal is to create comprehensive approaches that combine technical innovation with regulatory oversight to address and mitigate discrimination, ensuring that all individuals have equal opportunities.

The sub-themes are as follows:

Theme Two: Copyright Issues

The digital age has challenged existing frameworks for intellectual property protection and copyright arising from the use of training data and outputs of generative and non-generative AI models. The goal is to develop approaches that combine technical innovation guided by legal frameworks to fairly compensate creators and data providers, to ensure human effort and creativity maintains a meaningful and value-adding role in the digital economy.

The sub-themes are as follows:

Theme Three: Social Resilience

The pervasive use of AI has highlighted the interdependence of social resilience and AI. AI can support social resilience and strengthen different segments of the community. Conversely, AI can exacerbate stressors such as social media mis/disinformation and social divisions and undermine social cohesion. The goal is to develop integrated solutions that combine technical innovation with robust policies to enhance social resilience, ensuring that AI supports rather than diminishes community strength and autonomy.

The sub-themes are as follows:

Theme Four: Control of Agents

Effective control and governance of AI agents, through clear frameworks, regulations and standards, are essential to ensure they operate safely, ethically, legally, and with accountability. Increasingly, AI agents will interact with physical artefacts including IoT and robots. The goal is to create integrated approaches that combine technical measures for assessing agent performance with governance frameworks that establish clear roles and responsibilities to ensure that AI agents are effectively controlled and used in ways that are beneficial and compliant with established norms and regulations.

The sub-themes are as follows:

The proposal should address at least one of the themes listed above. Alternative themes will not be considered for evaluation. We highly encourage proposals to have a clear research focus on a single theme.