NUS SoC AI Society (Announcements)

🚀 The LaunchPad AI Symposium is happening TOMORROW, 18 August! If you’re curious about where AI is actually heading, we’ve got 6 conversations worth showing up for: 🧠 Prof Tan Zhi-Xuan, NUS Computing: Can AI Learn to Cooperate Naturally With Us? 🛡 Huanyue Liao, IMDA: Assessing AI Chatbots’ Responses to Suicide and Self-Harm Risks 🔭 Clement Neo, Neo Research: The Best Way to Evaluate the Open Frontier ⚡️ Isaac Timothy Tay, VP Product, ShopBack: How AI Is changing Product Management 💡 Dawn Teo, Chief Stratergy, Arkverse: How do we use Cognitive Science to Build Great Products? 💻 Gabriel Chua, OpenAI: Reflections from Codexmaxxing You don’t need to be deep in tech. If you use AI, work with AI, build with AI, or simply want to understand where all of this is going. Come join us. 📅 Tomorrow, 18 August 📍 Acacia College, National University of Singapore 🎟 Sign up here Featuring booths from Griffin Labs, SemiAnalysis, and AgnesAI (I heard all are hiring)

Five frontier themes in AI. Two days at NUS. 🧠 AI in Training ☁️ AI in Infrastructure & Deployment 🤖 Embodied AI 🛡 Social Intelligence & Human Values 💻 AI in Product Whether you’re building, already working in the space, looking for a way in, or simply curious, the room is for you. You don’t need to be a CS major. Expect talks and panels from people doing this work every day, including the lessons from production that often take much longer to make it into papers, courses or playbooks. Come for the theme you know. Stay for the ones you didn’t expect. 📅 17–18 August 2026 📍 Acacia College, National University of Singapore 🎟 Sign up here

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Five people who build AI for a living, answering the questions the demos skip. Alex Ang and Aiden Ma: Agnes AI 🧠 What it actually took to build and grow Agnes. The calls they made, the ones they would remake, and where it goes next. Guan-ru Huang: Nebius ☁️ Your local AI deployment works. Now serve it to a million people without it falling over. Jakub Tomasek: Kabam Robotics 🤖 Jakub explores the Physical APIs, networking, and trust needed to make intelligent machines work with each other and the real world. Clement Neo: Neo Research 🛡️ How do you catch a frontier model manipulating you before it ships? Currently, nobody fully knows. Clement works on it anyway. Isaac Timothy Tay: ShopBack 💻 Here is how AI changed the way it gets built, and where human judgement still wins in the product lifecycle. Two days. 15+ speakers, mentors and builders in between. Come with questions, they stay to answer them. 📅 17 to 18 August 2026 📍 Acacia College, NUS 🎟️ Register here

Anyone can demo AI. Almost nobody can ship it. This 17-18 August, five people who actually did it are on stage at NUS. OpenAI. Cloudflare. IMDA. Griffin Labs. Adaption. • 🧠 Darius Liu from Adaption on adaptive AI systems and why enterprises will need to own and control their intelligence. • ☁️ Jaryl Chng from Cloudflare on using AI to keep the infrastructure behind "serverless" services reliable. • 🤖 Raphael Yee from Griffin Labs on why the future of robotics may not be one general-purpose robot, but specialist hardware and models built to solve real commercial problems. • 🛡️ Huanyue Liao from IMDA BizTech Group on AI safety and how chatbots should respond when the stakes are real. • 💻 Gabriel Chua from OpenAI on practical ways to learn, build, and execute with Codex. If you are a student trying to work out where you fit into AI, come hear from the researchers, builders, and operators doing the real work. 📅 17 to 18 August 2026 📍 Acacia College, National University of Singapore 🎟️ Sign up: Here

[ RECRUITMENT AY26/27 ] NUS SoC AI SOCIETY NUS SoC AI Society (AISoc) is a club focused on 💻 AI Research & Engineering. We take things apart to see how they really work, and bridge the gap between academic theory and real-world implementation. Whether you’re a complete beginner looking to move past the buzzwords or an advanced builder tinkering with custom architectures and kernels, here is your space to build, learn, and optimize :] [ OPEN ROLES ] 🎫 Programs Team: Conduct our public workshops, handle event logistics and external relations, and encourage the club to participate in competitions. 📡 Publicity & Marketing Team: Manage our social media, websites and get our work out to the NUS population! 🛠 Technical & Research: Manage the club's knowledge base, conduct research, and enrich our members by holding exclusive sharings. [ THE WELCOME TEA 🍵] Stop by to find out more about AISoc! 📍 Where: COM3 MPH (Location Confirmed!) 🗓 When: 19 August 2026, 1-3 pm Fill in this form to indicate your attendance: https://forms.gle/VLDR6V3yo9iwpA5u5 Join Our Channels! 📢 Announcements Channel: t.me/nusaisociety 📢 Mass Community Channel: https://t.me/+iOXKIVLSYcw5OTA1 ❓ Queries: DM us at @MWYZShroom @tgz_k [ APPLY TO JOIN 🤌] Already sure you want to join us? SOME PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN RESEARCH IS EXPECTED WHEN APPLYING FOR THE TECH & RESEARCH TEAM 🗓 Application Deadline: 23 August 2026 2359 Fill in this form to apply: https://forms.gle/SkvmfWNc2Xw4BroB9

AI does not stop at the model. It has to be trained, deployed, embodied, trusted, and made useful in the world. Meet the researchers, builders, and operators doing that work now. The LaunchPad AI Symposium puts you in the room with the people shaping what AI becomes next. Expect technical talks, live demonstrations, candid conversations, and a room full of people building what comes next. 🎓 Open invite to all university students 📍 Acacia College, National University of Singapore 📅 17 to 18 August 2026 If you want to be in the room where AI’s next chapter is being argued, built, and tested, join us. Sponsored by: Jane Street, GriffinLabs, SemiAnalysis, and Zo Computer Supported by: OpenAI, Acacia College, and IMDA Partnering with: Agnes AI, AI Singapore, Cloudflare, GMI, Hacktron AI, Kabam Robotics, Neo Research, NUS Computing, Reactor School, ShopBack, The Collective, and The Robot Company Register: Here More details: Here