Southeast Asia's Widening Fault Lines: How AI Threatens Climate and Social Stability
Source: Thailand Business News
Published on: 2026-04-22 04:33
The numbers from the World Economic Forum's Executive Opinion Survey 2025 are striking, and they deserve far more attention than they have received. While business leaders and executives worldwide rank the risks from artificial intelligence in tenth place, their counterparts in Southeast Asia place them in fourth. Six ranks higher. That is not a marginal discrepancy; it is a flashing warning light from the people closest to the ground. To be clear, the executives surveyed are not AI skeptics or technophobes. These are the same leaders overseeing key cloud and AI investment programmes from Microsoft in Indonesia and Malaysia, Singapore's Green Data Centre Roadmap, and an AI research and development centre from Qualcomm in Vietnam. They are beneficiaries of the boom. And yet, they are more worried than anyone else on earth. The WEF acknowledged that while the AI boom in Southeast Asia h...
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