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503 | The AI Arms Race: Is Pakistan Building a Tech Engine or a Digital Sweatshop? | TBT
· 1 h 14 min · S5 E501
Episode 503 | The AI Arms Race: Is Pakistan Building a Tech Engine or a Digital Sweatshop? | TBT
Welcome back to the next era of Thought Behind Things. The world is fracturing into a multipolar reality, a global financial reset is looming, and AI is triggering the most violent capital reallocation in human history. The era of the zero-interest-rate tech boom is dead; the AI efficiency purge is here. If we don’t understand the mechanics of these changes, we will be structurally locked out of the new global economy.In this episode, Dr. Naveed Iftikhar (Co-founder of atomcamp and former Governance Specialist at the Ministry of Finance) breaks down the brutal realities of building an AI-first workforce in an emerging market. We discuss the paradox of mandating AI training for civil servants when the state struggles with basic infrastructure, the mathematics of a sovereign default, and the harsh truth about who actually wins and loses in the next 5 years of tech automation.
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