AI Governance and Regulation in Southeast Asia

About this episode

The episode discusses AI governance in Southeast Asia and the collaboration opportunities between ASEAN countries and the United States.

As part of The Evolution of AI Governance and Regulation in the Indo-Pacific project at NBR, this Asia Insight episode features NBR Senior Director of Research and Programs Doug Strub sitting down with Mr. Nigel Cory and Dr. Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano as they discuss AI governance in Southeast Asia, and opportunities and challenges for ASEAN countries to collaborate with the United States in shaping a future AI agenda. Nigel Cory is a Nonresident Fellow at NBR and is a Director with Crowell Global Advisors. His November 2025 paper on "Codeveloping the Model: U.S. and ASEAN Cooperation in Shaping and Deploying AI" can be viewed at https://www.nbr.org/publication/codeveloping-the-model-u-s-and-asean-cooperation-in-shaping-and-deploying-ai/. Doug Strub is Senior Director of Research and Programs at NBR. Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano is a Research Fellow for Future Issues and Technology in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Her September 2025 paper on "Charting ASEAN’s Path to AI Governance: Uneven Yet Gaining Ground" can be viewed at…

People in this episode

Host: Doug Strub

Guests: Nigel Cory, Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano

Topics covered

• AI governance
• regulation
• Southeast Asia
• ASEAN
• U.S. collaboration

Keywords

• Indo-Pacific
• AI agenda
• collaboration
• challenges

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Evolution of AI Governance and Regulation, Codeveloping the Model: U.S. and ASEAN Cooperation in Shaping and Deploying AI, Charting ASEAN’s Path to AI Governance: Uneven Yet Gaining Ground

Places: Southeast Asia, Indo-Pacific, the United States, Singapore

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