Those Automated Hands..... These Outdated Hands

<blockquote style="text-align: center;">I know I should have just ignored and focus on doing myself GOOD, but curiosity got the BETTER part of me and I ended up putting my BEST into this research.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center;"> Wait..Did I just complain about curiosity? Isn't that part of the make-up of a journalist? lol........</blockquote> Once upon a jobless time, I decided to check out a few things to read online.I opened Medium and the first thing I saw became the beginning of what turned into two years of research.<blockquote>“It is possible that we could have superintelligence in a few thousand days" </blockquote>That line caught my attention immediately and out of...well... curiosity, I did a quick check and found out it was said by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, in his personal blog post titled "The Intelligence Age", published on September 23, 2024—just a few days ago.As I read further, he added that<blockquote> "Most jobs will change more slowly than most people think.”</blockquote>I paused, thought deeper and I felt what he really meant ... (what I interpreted it as) was:<blockquote>Most jobs will end up as irrelevant in the future, and a large number of those affected I realized... would be my fellow Africans.</blockquote><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/b74d3b76-83cc-4a11-a1ad-6b9a3ac73f16.jpeg"/>However, I was curious to know why he could predict something as huge as that. So I followed the trail, with the urge to gather perspectives of other leading AI figures. By early 2025, my pen itched of progress and my desires responded, I was still unsatisfied until Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, maker of Claude AI came up as a guest on my favorite Axios Interview in May 2025 and predicted ...again:<blockquote>"AI could eliminate up to 50% of entry-level white collar jobs within the next one to five years."</blockquote>Again, my mind went straight to Africa and as I researched ...I found out:<blockquote>"With data from International Labour Organisation, it showed that out of approximately 530 million people in the African labour force, 123.5 million people are in white collar roles and nearly 49.4 million of them are vulnerable to automation.</blockquote><img src="/media/inline_insight_image/Youve_Probably_Heard_This_3-Word_Career_Advice__Its_A_Total_Trap.__HuffPost.jpg"/> At this point, something became clear to me:<blockquote> The goal of AI is not necessarily to replace entire jobs... but to replace tasks because a task, most times requires a collection of jobs.</blockquote> Eight months later, on February 3, 2026, I was busy collating words and findings together when Financial Express published another statement from Sam Altman which he said 'recently':<blockquote>"AI won't replace humans but humans who use AI will replace those who don't". </blockquote>The quote circulated heavily online and even made it to the 'Quote of the day' of The Times of India.That word hit me deeply but it even hit harder when I thought about those who will mostly suffer the risk of being left behind... again, my fellow Africans.Then, fast forward to this month, 1st of May 2026, I watched a live episode of a podcast called 'Memos to the President' that featured Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, there he commended the fact that companies adopting AI are expanding faster and are therefore hiring more people. However, he warned clearly:<blockquote> "Those who do not use the technology will lose their jobs to those who do."</blockquote>At that point, the pattern was undeniable because as I looked again at the African Workforce, I arrived at this conclusion:The only thing truly left for African workers in the AI-driven digital economy is a strong hybrid of ADAPTABILITY and innovative CREATIVITY—from the grassroots level upward.Opportunities for involvement and even competition do exist, particularly through remote work and freelancing powered by AI tools. However, a wider gap lies elsewhere....: AI systems have not fully captured Africa’s cultural mode, local realities, languages...<blockquote>AI does not fully understand Africa.</blockquote> This gap is....not as a rotten weakness but as a golden opportunity.According to the International Monetary Fund, only about 6% of Africa’s workforce is currently involved in AI-related activities. A significant void is being revealed here—one that ONLY African workers can fill!The CORE of AI innovation may already be dominated globally, but what remains is just as important... The ROUGH EDGES! African workers have this golden opportunity to refine and rebrand these innovations. Because without this, the core of innovation may be built elsewhere, but take away the African input then it will forever remain incomplete, unrooted and ultimately unpresentable. <blockquote style="text-align: center; ">With that thought, GOOD enough to ease the burden I imposed on myself, I finally set my pen down </blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center; ">But not my curiousity. That... will forever remain</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center; "> Perhaps with collaborations and time, it might get even BETTER through </blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center; ">For now ... This is my BEST</blockquote>

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