We are at the beginning of the era of Artificial Intelligence, this technology is coming to revolutionize the world in the same way that the Internet did several decades ago and as we have seen, those who are not able to adapt and update themselves with the changes that are going to be produced they will become obsolete and outdated.

This has many negative consequences, and it is not limited to not knowing how to use ChatGPT or how to apply it in our work, but you can directly be excluded from society in the same way that the elderly are being left out of the banking system that It is increasingly digitalized.

And if you have seen it first-hand, it is not easy to explain to your father or even your grandfather how to make a bizum, even if it appears to be something easy. The truth is that this digital boom caught the vast majority off guard and now the effects of not preparing society for all the changes that are coming have been seen.

Now, with AI in full growth, a revolutionary change is expected in all aspects of our daily lives, and for now the only place where they seem to have learned their lesson is the small country of Singapore.

known as the Republic of Singapore, is a mix of city-state and island country, located in Southeast Asia and with barely more than five million citizens. Even so, this nation should become a global benchmark due to how they are going to face the arrival of the AI era as a country.

• The Singapore model to prepare for the AI era:

The Singapore government has set to work to face the era of AI, and instead of taking a back seat, they want to anticipate what is to come. It all started in July 2023 with the 'Trailbalzers' project, an initiative to help local businesses identify the problems that AI would be able to solve.

In this way, little by little they were introducing AI skills into the daily lives of citizens and, for example, if before a person wanted to rent a car, they had to look for a company that offered this service in their area, make the Book, present your documentation and wait to see if there was a service that suited him.

Now, in Singapore they just have to go to a chatbot, tell it what they want and with the conditions they are looking for, and the AI offers them exactly the result they were looking for. This project has been evolving and more aspects have been introduced, to the point that there are numerous platforms that use Google Cloud infrastructure combined with AI to "eliminate between 20% and 25% of the heavy lifting."

Now these efforts have been updated again with the National AI Strategy 2.0, a plan with a budget of $740 million over the next five years to create companies to transform the economy with AI. But it is not the only thing, and as we have learned, part of the money will go to subsidize the university academic expenses of people over 40 years of age.

The idea is to keep up to date those who are in the middle of their professional career and who are training in knowledge that, due to the rapid advance of AI, will be unnecessary in a few years, as could be the case with programming.

Singapore should be an example for all countries to follow, doing everything possible to include all its citizens in this technological transformation that we are going to experience, teaching them the uses and adopting the advantages it offers to our daily lives.