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The AI That Maps the Floods: How SatGPT is Building Asia-Pacific’s Disaster Resilience
In an era of escalating climate disasters, the ability to translate data into life-saving action has never been more critical. For the Asia-Pacific region—the...
The Cognitive Cost of Over-reliance on AI in Education: A Global Review
With the internet age, artificial intelligence (AI) is a leading-edge tool in education that offers resources that are claimed to yield customized learning, instant...
Machines Take Over: AI, Mass Layoffs, and the New Crisis of Human Work
From industries and continents around the world, thousands of employees wake up to the same horrendous news: another round of cuts. The cycle has...
From Malacca to the Sulu Sea, AI is rewriting maritime security
Frontier AI is moving from white papers to war rooms across Southeast Asia. ASEAN defense planners now face a hard question. Can the region...
AI for All: Turning Digital Power into a Global Public Good
The world's excitement around artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most revolutionary changes of our era. Across health, education, finance, and agriculture, these...
From Swords to Algorithms: Reimagining Sun Tzu in the Age of AI
The Art of War by Sun Tzu has been the basis of all strategy in the hundreds of years before and even in modern...
From Fragmented Globalisation to Cohesive Intelligence: How AI Is Quietly Redefining the World Order
The early promise of globalisation was straightforward but ambitious — to bring the world together into one marketplace, where capital, labour, technology, and ideas...
Beijing Bets on AI to Strengthen Ties with the Global South
By marking the United Nations Day of the Developing Global South on September 12, 2025, China emphasizes the need to develop and coordinate new...
Deepfakes and the Fragility of Democracy: Lessons from Indonesia for the Global South
In August 2025, I witnessed firsthand how Indonesia was shaken by a deepfake video of Finance Minister Sri Mulyani. The manipulated footage—showing her delivering...
SAARC AI Framework: Setting Guardrails for Artificial Intelligence in South Asia
Authors: Dr Muhammadi and Mr. Yasir Hussain*
Authorities around the globe are rushing to craft rules and regulations for the use of AI technologies, sparking...