Pakistan’s AI checklist

OLD science fiction had a simple trick. When something had to sound impossibly advanced, writers added the word ‘quantum’ to it. Quantum engine. Quantum lock. Quantum field. Nobody knew exactly what it meant, but everyone understood that the future had arrived. Artificial intelligence now performs a similar function in policy language. Add AI as a prefix to any ordinary state reform, and it sounds futuristic. In reality, AI is not some glamour to be sprinkled over systems, and it is most definit...