LETTER: A 2026 survey of nearly 9,000 executives across seven economies found that AI adoption raised annual labour productivity growth by just 0.2 per cent over the past three years, though executives expect a 0.6 per cent boost going forward.
Malaysia's National AI Action Plan 2026–2030 targets 0.8 to 1.2 percentage points of incremental GDP growth annually — roughly RM13–RM20 billion — along with 300,000 to 500,000 new AI-related jobs and top-20 global AI readiness by 2028.
It is also estimated that approximately 685,000 Malaysian workers could be significantly impacted within three to five years without accelerated reskilling.
One research suggests 45 per cent of the workforce — about 6.7 million workers — have at least 40 per cent of job tasks potentially substitutable by existing generative AI technologies.
