A NATION’S FUTURE HANDED TO MACHINES?
DISTURBING NEW data reveals South Africans are willingly rushing toward a future dictated by artificial intelligence, with a staggering 70% now relying on AI chatbots for everything from career advice to MAKING MAJOR LIFE DECISIONS. This is not progress—it’s a nationwide surrender of human judgment to algorithmic control, and corporations are LAUGHING all the way to the bank.
The study, funded by tech giant Google, is being hailed as a triumph. But a closer look reveals a terrifying reality: citizens are outsourcing their agency. A shocking 49% of respondents admit using AI for major life choices, while 65% lean on it to explore career changes. What happened to human intuition and grit? The very fabric of personal responsibility is being erased by a wave of convenient, untested technology.
Even more alarming is the BLIND TRUST being placed in corporations. 88% have “confidence” that tech companies will oversee AI in the “public interest”—a naive and dangerous belief given the track record of data harvesting and profit-driven motives. Meanwhile, a complacent 58% trust government oversight, a government that struggles with basic service delivery, to regulate technology it barely understands.
The report ominously identifies a new class of “power users,” with 27% now dependent on AI “a lot.” This creates a two-tier society: the AI-augmented elite and the left-behind masses. The study itself admits that certain workers—manufacturers, tradespeople, and crucially, TEACHERS—are seen as least likely to benefit. Are we witnessing the deliberate de-skilling of an entire generation, replacing educators and craftsmen with chatbots?
South Africans are sleepwalking into a digital serfdom, trading their capacity for critical thought for the empty promise of efficiency. The ultimate question is no longer about how AI can help, but what it will cost us to be human. The machines aren’t coming for our jobs—they’re coming for our MINDS.
Author: Kayitsi.com
