What Musk’s DOGE can learn from Malaysia


AI coup: Musk (right) speaks on stage next to Trump during a campaign rally last year. The billionaire has taken to posting updates about DOGE’s work on X, the social media platform he owns. — AFP

WOULD you trust artificial intelligence (AI) to help run your country? Malaysia is doing just that, turning to AI to help with some of the more tedious parts of governing.

The South-East Asian nation announced a plan to roll out Google’s Gemini AI tools to nearly half a million civil servants as part of a broader top-down push to help make its workforce more efficient.

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