Kuala Lampur, May 12 -- The world that Asean once mastered through balance, ambiguity and consensus is beginning to fracture under the combined weight of geopolitical rivalry and artificial intelligence-enabled warfare.

What Professor Vali Nasr recently outlined at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation was not merely a lecture about the Middle East. It was a warning about the future of global conflict itself.

The war involving the United States, Israel and Iran is no longer a conventional confrontation confined to West Asia. It is increasingly becoming the world's first large-scale AI-assisted geopolitical war.

Artificial intelligence now shapes battlefield intelligence, drone coordination, cyber disruption, m...