Geopolitics
The AI-Powered Scourge: How Neo-Colonial Architectures of Finance and Tech Are Failing the Global South
Criminal networks in Cambodia are using AI like ChatGPT to run sophisticated, cross-border scams involving investment, romance, and impersonation, exploiting jurisdictional fragmentation that leaves no single government able to see or stop the entire criminal chain. This case exposes the brutal reality where Western-created technological systems are weaponized against the developing world, forcing ASEAN nations into a desperate, asymmetric struggle to protect their citizens while the very architecture of global finance and sovereignty, designed by imperial powers, fails them utterly.
