May 26 2022
The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa, Ethics and Society
In the second episode of The Unshackling Podcast Season 1, Ompha Tshikhudo Malima is joined by Mulalo Michael Matoro, a software engineer who holds a BSc Honours in computer science from the University of Cape Town, to discuss the Fourth Industrial Revolution, technology and society. We talked about how artificial intelligence works and questioned its level of intelligence, especially as compared with human beings. While artificial intelligence makes our lives convenient due to its massive computation power, it has downsides within the embrace of racism. "...it's coded by people and people have certain values that they instill in them. So has there be any kind of improvement in with this because philosophers have been complaining about this issue of AI being racist, maybe in terms of recognition, maybe in terms of CCTV, how it views people maybe in terms of racial profiling," Ompha Malima. Besides racism, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields are still too far behind in achieving gender equality. Among other things; we also touched on the heated question of jobs and skills development. Mulalo Matoro argues that "So the education system will now have to match up with the minimum skills that might be required in this coming age or this current age."