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Last month, Mozisha hosted the second episode of our AI Series, a conversation focused on healthcare. We brought together Dr. Chidi Akusobi, a physician-scientist from Stanford University working on clinical AI, Dr. Maureen Etuket, co-founder of Pumzi Devices in Uganda, and Faith Emoruwa, a perioperative nurse in Lagos specialising in Da Vinci robotic
By a pragmatist who's watched too many brilliant people sleepwalk into redundancy The memo has gone out. Not the one your manager sent. The one the entire economy is quietly circulating: AI is coming for jobs — and it's not being polite about it.
In the first week of May alone, Meta announced 8,000 job cuts. Microsoft offered buyouts to nearly 9,000 workers for the first time in its 51-year history. PayPal said it would eliminate 20% of its entire workforce. Coinbase cut 14% of staff. Every announcement cited the same driver: artificial intelligence.
It used to be frustrating. Now it’s becoming a structural problem. You graduate. You apply for jobs. They ask for experience. You don’t have experience. So you don’t get the job.
At first, it sounds like progress. Costs fall, production speeds up, profits rise, but then what happens to the people whose incomes disappear? And if those people lose their income, what happens next?
In the Age of Artificial Intelligence I am human, and I live in a time where intelligence is no longer mine alone. There was a time when thinking felt like the ultimate proof of being alive. If you could think, you existed in a way nothing else did because higher intelligence was what separated us from other creatures. That idea felt solid, certain and untouchable, but things have changed. Now, I share that space with artificial intelligence. It learns, responds, creates, and sometimes even surprises me.