This week I spoke with two people in Brazzaville about artificial intelligence.
One conversation was with Cyprienne KENAKALE, a Digital Marketing and Communication student at WinnerVerse University. We spoke at World Winner Campus in Moungali. The other was with Chris MOUSSOKI, who teaches logistics and transport at World Winner Academy. I spoke with him in his office.
I went into the interviews already knowing the general topic. I wanted to understand how people here are actually using AI for learning and work.
The two conversations did not give me the same answer.
Cyprienne told me that she uses AI to understand her courses better. She asks for more examples and more context when something is not clear enough.
One sentence from her stayed with me:
AI is no more the future, but the present. Africa should wake up; if not, we’ll stay behind.
Chris uses AI too, but his first concern was different. He talked about productivity, but he also warned that AI can give false answers. His point was that the person using the tool still has to think.
I found that contrast more interesting than I expected.
Before the interviews, I could have written a very general article about AI being useful but risky. That would have been easy. It would also have sounded like hundreds of other articles.
Talking to real people changed the story.
Cyprienne was thinking about opportunity. Chris was thinking about judgment.
Both were using the same kind of technology.
That made me think about my own work as a trainer too. Showing someone where to click is not enough. I have said that before in another COMM 310 project. With AI, it may be even more important. A person can receive an answer in seconds, but speed does not tell us whether the answer is useful.
I left those interviews with fewer simple answers than I had before.
For a news article, that was probably a good thing.
