10/09/2025
Despite its reputation as ’s “ ,” recent events reveal deep contradictions. During the -led protests, the youth turned to Generative AI to power civic education by summarizing the Finance Bill 2024, translating complex policy documents into local languages, creating graphics that exposed corruption and producing cartoons and illustrations that spread rapidly online. became a people’s tool for transparency and accountability. The response from the ruling class was swift, with calls for tighter control. Out of this backlash emerged the Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Bill 2025, a proposal that would hand the government unprecedented access to citizens’ private online lives.
BY FAITH SUDI Artificial Intelligence has long been painted as a threat to jobs. Whenever it comes up outside tech