Pakistan, May 21 -- When Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned that many white-collar tasks could be automated within the next 12 to 18 months, it sounded dramatic. But it did not sound impossible. He was not talking about robots replacing factory workers. He was talking about the work done by people sitting in front of computers: legal drafting, accounting, marketing, project management, coding, reporting, documentation, research and routine office decision-making. In other words, the jobs that keep most modern offices alive. https://fortune.com/article/why-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman-predicts-ai-automation-18-months/

Now ask the uncomfortable question: what happens to Pakistan? Pakistan has seen technology waves before. Wh...