Pakistan, June 12 -- A lawyer spent years acquiring knowledge that an AI model can access in seven seconds.

A financial analyst spent a decade learning how to build models that software can now generate instantly. A doctor spent years memorising information that machines can retrieve faster and, in some cases, more accurately.

This is not a failure of education. It is the beginning of the death of expertise as an economic moat.

For most of recorded history, the person who knew more earned more. Knowledge was the ultimate scarce resource. The physician who understood anatomy, the lawyer who had memorised statutes, the accountant who could construct a balance sheet - these individuals commanded premium incomes precisely because what they...