There comes a moment in every great technology revolution when the late arrivals have to decide: accept the terms that are handed to them, or fight to write their own.
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Your edition Thursday 28 May refers "UK workers phased out by AI"
It is absolutely vital for all of us in South Africa to read and understand the contents of this article as this is not the future but it is the present. Already we are seeing jobs being wiped out at the behest of the employers who are now replacing people with systems. This replacement does not mean the “final nail in the coffin” of jobs. It merely means that the youth and the learners must already capacitate themselves to work with artificial intelligence and to be able to train the systems to do the jobs of the past.
The world has been through various industrial revolutions and this is just the next one. It should not be something that we fear but something that we grab with both hands and capacitate ourselves.
Michael Bagraim
Labour lawyer