AI Malaysia: How Nazir Razak and Goh Peng Ooi plan to build SEA’s bridge to the AI revolution

The realization came during an AI conference in Singapore last year, held by a top consulting company. Nazir Razak, Chairman of ASEAN Business Advisory Council Malaysia (ASEAN-BAC), had spent an entire day listening to consultants explain the various aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) to a room full of executives. His verdict was blunt: “I literally walked out and thought, ‘the consultants have no idea’. I realized they knew just about as much as I did – which was very little!”

It was a sobering moment for someone who chairs the Kuala Lumpur-based (KL) council. “Everybody’s at sea,” Nazir observes. “Nobody really knows what to do. And everybody’s kind of reaching out.”

But Nazri also had a deeper concern. As chairman of ASEAN-BAC, he sees AI as “the defining technological change of our era”—but also recognizes that Malaysia’s private sector is essentially flying blind.

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