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A Pluralistic Society Cannot Tolerate Everything—On Singapore’s Integration Courses and the Boundaries of Pluralism

Culture & Public Commentary2026.07.12
A Pluralistic Society Cannot Tolerate Everything—On Singapore’s Integration Courses and the Boundaries of Pluralism
Hu Yilin AI Interview | July 12, 2026 Introduction On July 10, 2026, Singapore’s Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, the Singapore Business Federation, and the National Employers Federation announced a report by the Alliance for Action on the Integration of Foreign Professionals, unveiling five initiatives: EP Journey for new Employment Pass holders, welcome days hosted by industry associations, an integration handbook and workshops for companies, culture-sensitivity courses for HR staff and team supervisors, and a centralized resource hub. EP Journey has already launched a six-month pilot in May, with plans to cover 600 participants before expanding gradually.[1] This is not a one-way program demanding that foreigners “become like locals.”…
culture tradition politics pluralism
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Jul 12, 2026
The Real Crisis in Academia Is Not That AI Can Write Papers, but That We Only Know How to Recognize Titles—Hu Yilin on How to Make Knowledge Subject to Examination Again

AI & Scholarship2026.07.10
The Real Crisis in Academia Is Not That AI Can Write Papers, but That We Only Know How to Recognize Titles—Hu Yilin on How to Make Knowledge Subject to Examination Again
Hu Yilin Interview | July 10, 2026 ◆ Lead-in | In May 2026, an international medical conference held in Copenhagen was drawn into a suspected case of systemic academic fraud: several Indonesian participants were accused of falsifying institutional affiliations, impersonating real researchers, and smuggling dubious research into the conference. Indonesia’s higher-education authorities and national research institutions then launched an investigation. In July, Nature reported on “humanizing” tools that can erase the “AI tone” from academic text; another audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers found false citations in nearly 3,000 papers that could not be matched to real publications.[1][3][4] Fake scholars, fake authors, fake citations, AI cheating—these incidents all seem to…
scholarship knowledge AI AI interview
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Jul 10, 2026
Hu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand

Culture & Public Commentary2026.07.06
Hu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand
Preface｜ The Singapore Land Authority recently disclosed that a cloud-based development and testing environment managed by IBM was accessed without authorization, exposing the names, NRIC numbers, and then-current property addresses of about 70,000 people. The incident sparked public discussion about digital government, outsourced systems, and the protection of identity data. Scholar Hu Yilin believes that this event should not be understood simply as a failure of Singapore’s digitalization; on the contrary, Singapore’s recent move to restrict the use of NRIC is worthy of affirmation. What really deserves discussion is the next generation of digital identity systems: in the future, identity verification should no longer rely on a single global number…
technology law identity Singapore
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Jul 6, 2026
The whole world has erupted into a shouting match—what right does a museum have to step in and play peacemaker?

Culture & Public Commentary2026.05.17
The whole world has erupted into a shouting match—what right does a museum have to step in and play peacemaker?
Published in Science Times (2026-05-15, p. 4, Culture); here is the original draft. You may be scrolling on your phone at this very moment, have seen this astonishing title, and clicked in to have a look. If you saw this article in the printed newspaper, that is quite rare, but even then you must have first noticed these eye-catching headlines. In this age of mass media, this age of information explosion, this age of the attention economy, the foremost question for information providers is not whether the content can withstand scrutiny from every angle, or whether it can withstand the test of time, or whether the author has deep accumulations,…
culture history commentary tradition
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May 17, 2026
Gathering All the Books in the World—Can the Library of Alexandria of the AI Era Endure?

AI & Scholarship2026.04.23
Gathering All the Books in the World—Can the Library of Alexandria of the AI Era Endure?
This article was published in China Science Daily (2026-04-23, p. 3, General), with the title changed to AI Can Now Read “All the Books in the World”; Do Humans Still Need to Read Books?. It was edited down and divided into sections at publication; the original draft is posted here: Around 295 BCE, Ptolemy I commissioned the Greek scholar Demetrius to build a magnificent library and Mouseion (an academic institution) in the city of Alexandria. Demetrius proposed the grand vision of “collecting all the books in the world,” and it received the continuing support of the Ptolemaic royal house. The first three Ptolemies carried the project forward one after another,…
scholarship commentary internet knowledge
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Apr 23, 2026
Distribution According to Enjoyment: How to Break the Logic of Involution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

AI & Scholarship2026.03.30
Distribution According to Enjoyment: How to Break the Logic of Involution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Cycle of Involution and Unemployment Could We Really Work Only Two Days a Week? As artificial intelligence keeps iterating, a new wave of “raising lobsters” (OpenClaw) has recently swept in: we can give AI permissions, let it act on its own, operate computers like a human, scrape data, write papers, build websites, make trades—there is nothing it cannot do. Although at present it still does not seem easy to train a truly labor-replacing “lobster,” the sense of crisis among wage workers is already hitting us head-on. One lovely fantasy might be this: wage workers go on working as usual and collecting their salaries, but hand all the actual labor…
everyday life culture freedom AI
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Mar 30, 2026
Opening Remarks for the Brain-Computer Interface Forum: Interface or Port?

AI & the Future of Technology2025.11.01
Opening Remarks for the Brain-Computer Interface Forum: Interface or Port?
On November 1, 2025, I was invited back to Tsinghua to take part in the third event of the Science and Culture Week, “Me in the Interface: Brain-Computer Interfaces and the Future of Consciousness,” namely the roundtable discussion “Decoding ‘Me’: The Boundaries of Brain-Computer Interfaces and Consciousness.” I served as the academic moderator. In fact, this was probably the first time I had acted as a moderator at a relatively formal event, but I felt I did rather well: I managed both to slip in some of my own private agenda and to let the guests each give full play to their strengths. I am posting here the guiding remarks…
philosophy culture technology media
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Nov 1, 2025
Let Beibei Become Someone Different from Yang Weiwei

AI & Scholarship2025.11.01
Let Beibei Become Someone Different from Yang Weiwei
The report I gave on October 25 at the National Academy of Art, “Human Childhood: The Forum for the Eighth International Cross-Media Arts Festival and the Fifth Sensibility Forum.” This year’s festival took the 1988 film Electric Boy as its starting point. I specially watched Electric Boy and prepared a talk that was as on-topic as possible. Here is the draft: Electric Boy tells the story of a child with extraordinary powers—a child who carries electricity—from being out of place to finally becoming integrated into society. In my personal view, this is a tragedy, because in the plot Beibei is gradually recognized by others only by doing good deeds and…
culture China technology freedom
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Nov 1, 2025
How Science Museums in China Can Innovate by Bringing Forth the New

Culture & Public Commentary2025.09.12
How Science Museums in China Can Innovate by Bringing Forth the New
Published in Science Times (2025-08-28, p. 3, general), with the title changed to “The first users of science museums should not be teenagers, but scholars” In this summer vacation, which is about to end, science museums have joined the ranks of the many must-check-in tourist destinations. For parents, if they want their children to take part in some edutainment-oriented activities, science museums are obviously one of the best choices. In recent years, our country has continuously increased investment in science museum construction. According to Xinhua News Agency, the number of science museums open free of charge in China increased from 92 in 2015 to 409 in 2024, with an average…
China science history of science scholarship
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Sep 12, 2025
In the Digital Age, How Do We Win the “Battle to Defend Childhood”

AI & Scholarship2025.06.01
In the Digital Age, How Do We Win the “Battle to Defend Childhood”
Published in China Science Daily (2025-05-30, p. 4, Culture). The original draft title was “How to Protect Childhood in the Digital Age”; this is a reprint of the published version. International Children’s Day on June 1 is approaching. The holiday was initiated by the Soviet Union, originally to commemorate the children persecuted in the Lidice massacre of June 1942; later it became “International Day for the Protection of Children,” aimed at protecting children’s rights to survival, health care, and education, and at opposing the hiring of child labor. As for the right to survival and the right to health care, adults ought to have those too. What is truly special…
book reading culture media education
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