HEC’s AI Integration |
Last July, Pakistan's federal cabinet approved the National AI Policy 2025 with considerable fanfare. The goals were ambitious: a million AI-trained professionals by 2030, AI concepts embedded from early STEM education upward, and universities repositioned as engines of an AI-driven knowledge economy. A few months earlier, the Higher Education Commission had already revised its Computer Science curriculum to make AI a core component of undergraduate study. On paper, Pakistan is moving. Inside the classroom, the picture is rather different, and I say that as someone who sits in those classrooms.
The uncomfortable truth is this: HEC mandated AI integration into the curriculum without any corresponding programme to train the faculty who are supposed to deliver it. I have watched senior professors, respected in their fields, open a browser and paste a research question into ChatGPT, then tidy up the output and present it as analysis. I am not making a moral judgement about those individuals; I am pointing out a systemic........