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    "speaker_name": "West Mugirango, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mogaka",
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    "content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this overdue Motion. I want to thank Hon. Marianne Kitany for this forethought and for waking up the country to the reality of life now and going forward. We all know that technology drives everything at the moment. AI is the latest entrant into the toolkit in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that has made work extremely easy, increased efficiency, and improved productivity. Also, it has come with equal dangers. Technology, like anything good, is a double- edged sword. As much as it is very helpful and drives serious economies of this globe, it is also having equal damage. For instance, when you employ AI in warfare, as is happening elsewhere in the world today, you can see the havoc that is being created by military people who are not at the warfront but are remotely attacking their perceived enemies and causing a lot of harm. Kenya has invested heavily in technical training institutes, but we have supplied them with very basic ICT support material. I urge this country, and this House in particular, to incorporate AI training and infrastructure in all our technical training institutes so that we equip our learners with the latest toolkit in the technological world. I am aware that with AI, the practice of all professions, be it medicine, law or architecture, has been completely revolutionised. I do remember that courtesy of the COVID-19, as a practicing lawyer, we did not know where we would have gone if our judicial system had not automated to enable us to practise law from our homes and present witnesses from where they are rather than having to transport them to courts and expose them to COVID-19. I am happy that we did those basic steps out of total necessity. Now, we are aware that it is either you embrace AI or you are aged out of whatever market or business that you are in. It is my humble prayer that going forward, we budget for a policy framework of how to embrace AI and maximize its utility so that we release a lot of man-hours of people travelling on the roads to workplaces, or sitting in the offices waiting for a colleague to bring a key to open so that you access your working material. That way, we will release as many man-hours as possible to alternative economic employment. In other words, what I am saying is that what machines can do, let man not bother to struggle to do. Machines are efficient, impossible to interfere with, incorruptible, and therefore, this is the direction this country should go. Additionally, despite having the budget we have in the education sector, some children in this country still learn under trees. We need so much investment in physical infrastructure. Going forward, we do not need to have our children in schools. They can learn from home so The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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