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The AI Training Craze Should Not Turn into a “Certificate Movement”

AI & Scholarship2026.07.08
The AI Training Craze Should Not Turn into a “Certificate Movement”
After Singapore’s accounting sector launched AI training for 60,000 people, Hu Yilin talks about the real problem with vocational training: it is not about teaching people to memorize prompts, but about making them dare to use AI, know how to ask questions, and be able to judge. In July 2026, Singapore pushed AI vocational training into a very concrete industry setting: the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and the Infocomm Media Development Authority launched AIxAccountancy, planning to equip 60,000 accounting and corporate finance professionals with AI usage capabilities over three years. The courses do not just speak in generalities about AI; they put AI into professional workflows such as accounting,…
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2026年7月8日
Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself

AI & the Future of Technology2026.07.03
Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself
Introduction｜The arrival of Open USD shifts stablecoin competition from a scramble for market share among crypto startups to a contest over infrastructure in which traditional finance, payment networks, technology platforms, and public-chain ecosystems all take part together. Around this new alliance involving more than 140 institutions, scholar Hu Yilin argues that stablecoins are not the moderate wing of the crypto revolution, but rather something like the “loyalist reformers” inside the old monetary system: they inherit the efficiency of blockchains while preserving the central position of the dollar and the Federal Reserve. The real crypto revolution, in the end, still has to return to a more fundamental question: must market life…
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2026年7月3日
From the China Zun Incident to AI Governance: Hu Yilin on New Technologies, Safety, and Social Mobility

AI & Scholarship2026.06.29
From the China Zun Incident to AI Governance: Hu Yilin on New Technologies, Safety, and Social Mobility
IntroductionAfter the Beijing CITIC Tower, “China Zun,” was struck by a small aircraft, low-altitude flight safety once again became a public issue. But in the view of technology philosophy researcher Hu Yilin, this accident should not be understood only as a low-altitude economy risk; it should be discussed within a much larger problem: whenever a new technology moves into mass use, society always tightens control in the name of safety, but whether that control is effective, who bears its costs, and who enjoys its benefits are often far more worth asking than the question of “whether we need safety” itself. After the China Zun accident, low-altitude safety was pushed into…
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2026年6月29日
From “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears

AI & the Future of Technology2026.06.24
From “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears
Hu Yilin on language policy, the revival of dialects, and the boundaries of freedom IntroductionA Chinese film led mainly in Teochew, Dear You, has recently sparked discussion in Singapore. The film was originally released in Singapore mainly with Mandarin dubbing, but after audiences responded enthusiastically to screenings of the original Teochew version, Golden Village added Teochew showings and continued to apply to IMDA for more screenings. The Straits Times reported that some Teochew screenings quickly sold out, and the cinema chain is seeking approval to add more original-language screenings.Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/golden-village-seeking-imda-approval-for-up-to-50-screenings-of-dear-you-in-teochew This controversy is worth paying attention to not only because of a film’s screening choices, but because it once again…
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2026年6月24日
Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good

AI & Scholarship2026.06.24
Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good
Hu Yilin on AI Writing, Authorial Responsibility, and the Academic Paper System IntroductionAfter science fiction writer Hao Jingfang spoke about AI’s participation in novel writing, a dispute broke out over whether “AI writing should be labeled” and whether “AI as the chief writer still counts as creation.” What such arguments really touch is not how much AI a particular writer used, but how authors, readers, and the academic community should rethink creation, responsibility, and evaluation once AI has entered the formal writing process. Hu Yilin’s position is very clear: he not only supports AI-assisted writing, but also AI-led writing. Human beings can in the future completely become second authors, editors,…
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2026年6月24日
Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2026.06.24
Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality
The Singapore government recently required YouTube, Facebook, and X to block 14 pieces of online content targeting the Indian community. Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs said these posts attacked the Indian community and undermined Singapore’s multiracial social model, and that the relevant content may have originated on Chinese platforms. The police issued directives to the platforms under the Online Criminal Harms Act, requiring them to bar Singapore users from accessing the relevant content. This incident has drawn attention not only because it involves racial issues, but also because it touches the core of Singapore’s mode of governance: in a modern city-state that places a high value on social harmony, multiracial…
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2026年6月24日
AI Regulation Must Not Become a New Despotism in the Technological Age

AI & Scholarship2026.06.24
AI Regulation Must Not Become a New Despotism in the Technological Age
Recently, the U.S. government, citing national security, asked Anthropic to suspend foreign nationals’ access to its frontier large models Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Anthropic then announced that, in order to ensure compliance, it would take both models offline for all users. This incident quickly sent shockwaves through the AI industry: if one country can, on security grounds, suddenly cut off global users’ access to frontier AI, then what exactly is AI—a commercial service, a piece of public infrastructure, or a new kind of strategic weapon? In the public discussion surrounding this incident, opinion quickly split into two camps. One side believes that frontier large models may be used for…
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2026年6月24日
Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately

AI & Scholarship2026.05.27
Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately
It’s graduation season again, and recently many universities in China have acquired a new task: checking AI-generation rates. Rules like “if AI-generated content (AIGC rate) exceeds 40%, you cannot graduate” are simply hilarious; they show how helpless some universities are in the age of AI. I believe that any university that stipulates that using AI means you cannot graduate can be dissolved on the spot; that is the best thing it can do for this era. Stop misleading the young. Checking the AIGC rate is a joke Checking the AIGC rate is in the same vein as the earlier thesis plagiarism check. I criticized the absurdity of plagiarism checks in…
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2026年5月27日
If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption

AI & Scholarship2026.05.09
If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption
AI’s New Advances At the end of last year, at someone’s request, I wrote a piece, Will AI Restructure the History of Science?. That happened to coincide with the release of gemini 3.0, and I thought it marked a watershed, the point at which AI moved from the level of a student to the level of a professional researcher. Less than half a year later, the AI tool landscape has once again shifted dramatically; gemini long ago ceased to be leading, and claude and chatgpt have reclaimed the lead in capability. More importantly, claude’s cowork and chatgpt’s codex have both undergone qualitative leaps forward too (perhaps spurred on by openclaw),…
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2026年5月9日
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,…
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2026年4月23日