Malaysian Consultant Kamales Lardi Calls for Computational Thinking and Cognitive Governance in Schools

Newswav republished an August 24 Scoop interview with Kamales Lardi, CEO of Lardi & Partner Consulting. She argues that Malaysian schools should prioritize computational thinking, questioning AI-generated information, and judging when to use AI. She calls excessive reliance passenger mode and refers to research comparing employees' brain activity with and without AI, while the article gives no sample, method, or quantitative results. She also proposes adding cognitive governance to technology, data protection, and cybersecurity rules and involving parents, schools, government, companies, and young people in rulemaking.

The interview adds computational thinking, independent judgment, and cognitive governance to the school-AI debate and rejects blanket restrictions as the sole response to youth AI use. Its claims are expert opinion, and the referenced brain-activity research lacks verifiable detail, so it cannot support conclusions about children's cognition or learning. If adopted in curricula, the approach would teach problem decomposition, information scrutiny, and use boundaries alongside tool operation. If taken into policy discussions, cognitive effects would become a review dimension involving families, schools, companies, government, and young people.