Shaza Fatima Khawaja on AI will create a permanent underclass

Shaza Fatima Khawaja

Pakistan's Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunication.

Foundational models are built and controlled elsewhere. Left to drift, the benefits concentrate where capability already sits, while the risks of job displacement, biased systems, extracting of data for value generation, and new dependencies fall on those least able to absorb them.

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Shahza Fatima Khawaja, remarks at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance, July 7, 2026.

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