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00:11So ladies and gentlemen, we have established in Malaysia the National AI Office
00:18to drive our AI agenda across government, industry and society.
00:25We are developing an AI governance framework, strengthening our data protection regime
00:31and putting in place rules suited to the technologies that are being deployed.
00:38We are investing in people, in terrorists.
00:43We need your full collaboration in this.
00:46Simon is nodding, but nothing more needs to be done.
00:50Needed by the next generation of engineers, researchers and innovators.
00:56Malaysia does not intend to remain merely a consumer of AI.
01:01We intend to work with partners to build capability and compete with confidence in the global digital economy.
01:10And to be sure, following from our Madani core values,
01:17our emphasis is on the people that we aim to fostering economic advancement and prosperity with equity and social justice.
01:29Pursuing digital transformation driven merely by the quest for material progress will be counterproductive
01:37if it leads to the enlargement of social inequities.
01:43Hence, our efforts must be rakyat-centric.
01:46It must lead to further narrowing the digital gap between the urban and rural population,
01:52between the wealthy and the poor.
01:55However, shared prosperity cannot be a mere slogan
01:59and must be actualized via clear policies and effective actions.
02:05In this week, I must first commend Tansi Salim and Nadie
02:10for the impressive work that I saw yesterday in Prabhantan Pao
02:15where this whole concept of sophisticated case of AI
02:23can be transmitted to the most rural areas in our country.
02:29The schools, rural clinics, farmers, petty traders have access.
02:38That's what we mean by shared prosperity that President J.G. Payne talks about.
02:47So, we will remain open to investment from East and West
02:51and to partnership with companies that respect our laws and our priorities.
02:56But we will not seek the decisions that matter most.
03:00How our data is governed, how AI systems are used in our public institutions
03:07and how new technologies are introduced into the lives of our citizens.
03:17So, while the technology may come from anywhere, the rules will be made in Malaysia.
03:24So, I want to close, ladies and gentlemen, by speaking to the students again in this room.
03:33I hope you are entering a world that will ask a great deal from you.
03:44You think you are asking us, but I am saying you are entering this new arena
03:50that will demand and ask a great deal from you.
03:58The technology you will work with is remarkable
04:03and it will place within your reach
04:06things that would have seemed impossible to me and your grandparents.
04:13It will also place before you choices
04:16but what to build, for whom and under what conditions.
04:20The question of your generation is not whether artificial intelligence is powerful.
04:28It is.
04:28The question is whether the people who ship it are wise
04:33and wisdom in knowing when to act
04:37and having the steadiness to pause
04:41when the answer is not yet clear.
04:44But it is as great as it is source
04:47has been its people
04:50young men and women like you
04:53who have learned
04:58parents or grandparents
05:00across generations
05:02to build something of lasting worth
05:05together across differences.
05:08as the machines grow more capable
05:12there is a form of human achievement
05:14the world needs more of, not less.
05:19So congratulations to Huawei Malaysia
05:22on the opening of this
05:25impressive AI lab and innovation center.
05:29Happy 25th anniversary
05:31and I look forward with confidence
05:35that we shall achieve this.
05:40Dear Prime Minister, please remain on stage
05:42for the next item.
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