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AI is reshaping employment.[File, Standard]
Anxiety is slowly spreading across universities and in corporate offices in Kenya. It is the anxiety of people who have built their lives around academic qualifications and are only now beginning to wonder whether artificial intelligence (AI) has invalidated their investment.
They include the lawyer who spent four years at the university. The radiologist who sacrificed years mastering the art of reading scans. The software developer who coded through sleepless nights to land a job that an AI tool can now approximate in seconds. For these people, the future is bleak.
AI is eating through the so-called prestige professions with a thoroughness that should alarm any government serious about creating employment for graduates. Legal research, which once kept armies of junior associates busy, is now handled faster and cheaper by AI tools.
