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There’s No “Bad” Time To Retire

This human is already feeling the AI squeeze

AI has been on my mind of late, as, I am sure, it has been on yours. My LinkedIn feed is chock-full of AI-generated images and posts, with individuals, and increasingly machines, spewing more content than anyone could hope to read. And my inbox is a literal minefield of transcripts and lengthy summaries of meetings that I should probably not have attended to begin with.

Investors brace for state-led assault on crypto asset ownership and privacy

If you believe the latest headlines, the South African government is preparing an all-out assault on your crypto assets and financial privacy. The 35-page draft Capital Flow Management Regulations, issued by National Treasury (Treasury) under the Currency and Exchanges Act, 1933, have crypto investors up in arms as digital assets become entangled in South Africa’s legacy exchange-control machinery.

The machines are not coming for your job, yet…

There are those who argue that the rapid uptake of artificial intelligence-backed applications and large language models (LLMs) will result in a jobs bloodbath the likes of which the world has never seen, and there are those who deflect with somewhat uncertain declarations that humans will prevail.