Source: The Next Web
Kenya positioned its educated workforce as a competitive advantage in the global outsourcing market just as generative AI began automating the exact types of tasks—data labeling, content moderation, customer support—that were supposed to absorb its graduates. The timing exposes a vulnerability in developing economies' labor strategies: they're racing to plug workers into commodity digital jobs at the precise moment those jobs are becoming economically marginal. The ten-year plan's core assumption collapsed within months of launch.