South Africa, Jan. 22 -- Moving on from the shiny new toy

Internationally, 2025 was the year of AI. I don't think that this comes as a surprise to anyone in the industry. Every conference at every level was talking about it, and the ICAS Global Think Tank produced two thought pieces on the topic of AI and self-regulation - one by South Africa's very own Prof Steven Sidley.

On the AI front, I'm hoping that this might be the year where the shine starts to dull on the shiny new toy that is AI, and people start to realise that the work that AI produces is often wrong, tone deaf and elicits the "ick" in people reading or viewing it - even if they can't pinpoint why. Going into 2026, the ICAS Global Think Tank is talking about how the new gen...