An NGO has questioned the government’s plans to introduce an AI-powered system for recruiting migrant workers, asking how it solves the governance issues that have plagued the existing Foreign Worker Centralised Management System (FWCMS).

Monitoring Sustainability of Globalisation (MSN) said merely labelling something as being AI-powered does not fix governance failure, and asked what safeguards are in place to prevent the new system from repeating past mistakes.

“The exploitation of...