South Africa’s AI Reset Should Start With Frontline Judgment

South Africa’s public AI debate has already shown why credibility matters. When policy documents, chatbots, or automated systems contain errors, the technical mistake quickly becomes a trust problem. The answer cannot be to promise that humans remain in the loop while leaving the loop undefined. The Stanford Digital Economy Lab’s August update gives this problem a sharper edge. Employment for workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed occupations was about 19% below the p... Read more »