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SCOTT TIMCKE | Five AI reforms South Africa should prioritise now

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By Scott Timcke
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The government has announced that it is rebooting its national AI policy. Good. The previous document was a list of aspirations and assigned responsibilities dressed up as a strategy. The question now is whether this coming iteration will do the same, or whether it will make actual decisions about who governs what, on what legal basis, and with what consequences for non-compliance. Here are five things that would make it real.
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SCOTT TIMCKE: Three questions SA must answer

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By Scott Timcke
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The old certainties are gone. Trade rules are fragmenting, technology is accelerating faster than institutions can adapt, and politics — domestic and international — is becoming more volatile. The danger is to treat these shifts as temporary disruptions. They are not. They are structural. Against this backdrop, the next three years are likely to be decisive.
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SCOTT TIMCKE: Geopolitics without guardrails

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By Scott Timcke
| Sowetan Verified
The Venezuelan crisis is less about oil supply than about how power is now exercised in an increasingly unconstrained global system. Even if the US does not need Venezuelan oil, preventing China from deepening its economic and strategic position in the Western Hemisphere is a motivation. Great powers rarely act on absolute need. They act on relative advantage. Chinese lending, infrastructure investment, digital systems and long-duration contracts in Venezuela create durable influence.
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