Bilal Bin Saqib

A message reading "AI artificial intelligence", a keyboard, and robot hands are seen in this illustration taken January 27, 2025. — Reuters This week, I stood in front of a room of Pakistan’s newest civil servants, the probationary officers of the 54th Common Training Programme, the men and women who will run our districts, our ministries, and our public financial system, and I asked for a show of hands. How many had used ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude in the last twenty-four hours?

Representative image of cognitive diversity and human intelligence in the AI age. — Canva Two months ago, on TBPN, PalantirTech’s CEO Alex Karp offered a stark view of who will come out ahead in the coming decades. There are essentially two ways to know you have a secure future in the AI era. "One, you have some vocational training," he noted. "Or two, you’re neurodivergent." While he advised Gen Z to skip elite college degrees, this wasn’t just edgy career advice.

Words reading "Artificial intelligence AI", miniature of robot and toy hand are pictured in this illustration taken December 14, 2023. — Reuters I just watched a machine pay another machine. No bank. No card. No human in the loop. $0.01 in USDC, settled in four seconds, across the open internet. The agent requested a premium data endpoint. The API returned a payment requirement. The agent signed the authorisation. The gateway verified it. The resource was delivered.