Catherine Thorbecke, Columnist

What Elon Musk’s DOGE Can Learn From Malaysia

Moving fast and breaking things might work in Silicon Valley, but not in governing.

February 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC

Catherine Thorbecke is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia tech. Previously she was a tech reporter at CNN and ABC News.

Malaysia is moving slow as it rolls out AI for government tasks.
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Would you trust artificial intelligence 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 Southeast 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.