Nairobi, March 15 -- There is a phrase about news that makes your 'blood run cold', where you learn, in a second, of something that will change your life forever.

Last week, my eldest son showed me ChatGPT. I have been battling fear and anxiety ever since.

ChatGPT is the new artificial intelligence platform from Microsoft-backed OpenAI. It can write amazing academic essays in seconds - meaning no education system can any longer exist, based on students writing essays.

Read: ChatGPT is useful but just like humans it is not infallible

From today, any student can put a topic into a ChatGPT app and get back an A-grade essay, and no search on the Internet can spot plagiarism. Moreover, eyes wide: Microsoft didn't even bother to prepare the...