IMDA
IMDA’ s GPT-Legal initiative illustrates the practical impact of this approach. Rather than providing law firms with a generic AI assistant, the authority established a design partnership with the Singapore Academy of Law to build a tool calibrated specifically to Singapore’ s legal context. The result was adoption by 70 % of lawyers performing legal research in Singapore – a figure that speaks to what Arisa describes as the conditions for genuine enterprise scale:“ Scale happens when you reduce manual bottlenecks and enable seamless innovation, empowering your workforce to focus on what matters most while AI handles the routine.”
Closing the governance gap across enterprise sizes Arisa identifies the uneven distribution of AI governance capacity as one of the more pressing structural challenges in enterprise AI deployment. Large organisations can invest in dedicated governance boards and embed safety into design from the outset. Smaller companies often cannot.
“ There are different starting points in how differently sized companies can manage these risks,” she says.“ Large enterprises typically have the R & D resources to establish dedicated cross-functional governance boards and embed safety directly into their design. In contrast, smaller companies often lack these specialised resources, leaving them with a narrow scope of AI adoption and a heavy reliance on generic vendor assurances.”
“ We don’ t just participate in the global tech revolution, but ensure our national identity, culture and aspirations are reflected in every innovation we shape”
Arisa Siong Director of Tech Policy IMDA
Project Moonshot, IMDA’ s AI testing toolkit, is designed to address this gap directly by open sourcing rigorous evaluation frameworks for industry to leverage regardless of organisational scale.
The coherence of IMDA’ s approach across all four domains – sustainability, applied innovation, quantum resilience and locally relevant AI – reflects a deliberate institutional design. The BizTech Group’ s engineers build and test systems, the policy teams govern them and the ecosystem-facing work ensures adoption moves beyond proof of concept into durable industry transformation. As Arisa puts it:“ We don’ t just participate in the global tech revolution, but ensure our national identity, culture and aspirations are reflected in every innovation we shape.” imda. gov. sg 17