Talking on the launch of the Nationwide AI Workplace (NAIO), Anwar stated AI-driven digitalisation was anticipated to contribute up to 25 per cent of its economy subsequent 12 months provided that the federal government have been to enhance its collaboration with tech corporations and native stakeholders.
“We can’t, for instance, search to make Malaysia successful as a digital nation whereas being certain by previous and outdated mindsets,” Anwar stated.
“If we don’t make a transition at extraordinary velocity, we are going to lose. Our aspirations will stay aspirations in the digital world.”
Anwar has made AI a precedence for his administration to help US$16.8 billion in investments pledged in current years by US tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Nvidia and China’s ByteDance to develop AI know-how and knowledge centres.
However the authorities faces deep public mistrust of AI, with almost 60 per cent of Malaysians fearful that the proliferation of AI-integrated units could lead on to misuse of their private knowledge, in accordance to a 2024 research by regional telecommunications firm Telenor Asia.
