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Artificial Intelligence: The World Is Changing—Is Pakistan’s Youth Ready?

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07.10.2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can certainly become a major challenge for humanity, but it would be incorrect to assume that it will inevitably lead to the end of humankind. AI may transform employment in many sectors and create risks involving misinformation, privacy, cybercrime, and excessive dependence on automated decisions. If this technology is developed and used without ethical principles, appropriate laws, and human oversight, its negative effects could increase. However, AI itself does not possess human consciousness; its impact will largely depend on the purposes for which people develop and use it.

The claim that artificial intelligence will cause the extinction of humanity is not, at present, an established scientific fact; it is a possible concern. Human beings possess creativity, emotions, empathy, moral awareness, and social relationships, qualities that are not easily replaced completely by technology. The real need is to use AI not as an enemy or complete substitute for humans, but as a tool for strengthening human capabilities. Preparing education, employment, and society for technological change, while keeping AI development under strong ethical, legal, and human oversight, can provide the foundation for a better and safer future.

In the age of AI, Pakistan’s traditional system of rote learning will become even less effective.

In the age of AI, Pakistan’s traditional system of rote learning will become even less effective.

The world is currently passing through a revolution whose speed may be even greater than that of the Industrial Revolution. The name of this revolution is Artificial Intelligence. Until a few years ago, AI was considered a complex scientific concept, but today it has become part........

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