Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim delivered Malaysia’s intervention at the first session of the G20 Leaders’ Summit at the Johannesburg Expo Centre in South Africa today. (Bernama pic)
JOHANNESBURG: Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim called for deeper collective preparedness to navigate global crises, adding that coordinated policies and stable, predictable rules reduce the severity of their impact.
Drawing from Malaysia’s experience chairing Asean this year, Anwar said the lesson is clear – resilience comes from common preparedness, not isolation.
“This lesson matters because the next disruption will likely be harder to contain. Artificial intelligence (AI) will reorganise labour markets at a pace our institutions will struggle to match.
“Without early investment in transitions, workers – especially the young and women – will face these shifts alone,” he said in his intervention during the first session of the G20 Leaders’ Summit at the Johannesburg Expo Centre today.
He warned that unpreparedness for globalisation has been shown to result in stagnant wages, erode public trust and the rise of politics that feed on grievance.
“With AI, destabilisation becomes a real risk if countries enter this transition unprepared. This will be one of the defining challenges of our times,” he said.
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