Selangor EXCO member: AI will not fully replace jobs; STDC partners with UC Berkeley on AI training

On September 1, 2026, Selangor State Executive Councillor for Investment, Trade and Mobility Ng Sze Han said in an interview with Media Selangor that AI will not fully replace jobs, and that those unwilling to learn or use AI tools will face reduced job opportunities. He said the Selangor government is cultivating AI talent through the Selangor Technical Development Centre (STDC), including a technology-oriented AI training course run with the University of California, Berkeley, and that STDC will also launch a series of AI courses. He said mastering AI means more than using tools such as ChatGPT.

The remarks shift the AI-employment discussion from job replacement to skills adaptation and provide a verifiable public training arrangement, offering a reference for AI talent supply and vocational education in Southeast Asia. For parents and students, AI skills may enter vocational and continuing education pathways; for education product providers, public training programmes may create new course and tool demand. The limitation is that this is currently an official's interview statement, with course scale, target participants and start dates not yet announced. Selangor's vocational and continuing education system may add technology-oriented AI courses, affecting local students' and workers' training choices. The public sector is placing AI talent training alongside industrial investment, which may drive demand for courses and tools for scenarios such as chip design.