Your weekly challenge? Go one day without AI! That’s what a tech adviser told the IMF audience in Bangkok.

At an IMF meeting in Bangkok, a tech adviser urged organisations to limit AI use, even suggesting a weekly AI-free day, and highlighted Singapore's training, skills passports and wage subsidies for retraining over-40s. She warned against blanket AI assistants, urged targeted workflow pilots, emphasized national AI sovereignty, gendered risks, sandboxing, and broader societal debate and safeguards.