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Shou Chew

CEO of Tiktok, ByteDance

Search every verified Shou Chew interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok, spoke at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference on October 12, 2026, participating in a panel titled "Unlocking Human Potential in an AI Era." During the session, he discussed the application of AI tools in content moderation, noting that automated agents can now analyze user experiences and generate reports on guideline compliance, which he said is particularly useful for moderating live streaming content. He also commented on the potential for AI to surpass human capabilities in certain aspects, describing a scenario where silicon-based systems could become superior to carbon-based humans in scalability and information processing. Chew addressed the relationship between AI and human decision-making, stating his belief that the trend is toward a combination of human judgment and AI assistance rather than fully autonomous machine control. He suggested that as trust and guardrails are built, agents may be allowed to perform more tasks autonomously over the long term. He also expressed pride in being from Singapore during his remarks at the event.

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“I think it's such an interesting survey and first of all thank you DBS for having me, thank you Susan for the introduction. I am from Singapore and I'm quite proud of that. I think what is really interesting about this survey is we don't have to question the definition of human here. I think human is a very obviously a very broad term and between human to human even all of us in this room, I think it is fair to say o”

“Our recommendation algorithm has always been based on machine learning, and recent advances have shown the opportunities are much bigger and coming faster; AI makes it easier to translate an idea in someone's head into a piece of content, unlocking many more people to express themselves and reach audiences.”

“If you do anything deceptive using AI—personation or anything dangerous—it violates the guidelines and we take it down. We will ask creators to label AI-produced content and if they don't label it we will take measures to reduce the reach they get.”

“Today in the Kingdom we have 125,000 businesses that use our platform; businesses with good products and a good message can find it very easy to get access to a large audience, and most of them don't pay us — they just post content.”

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