I chose to reflect on AI today and honestly it was not a hard choice because this is a topic that has been following me way before this trip even started. As a university student it feels like every other conversation about majors and career paths eventually circles back to AI and which jobs it is going to replace. Human resources and supply chain are 2 of the majors that keep coming up in those conversations and as someone studying business that hits a little close to home. The discussion today gave me a chance to actually sit with something I think about a lot but do not always get the space to unpack.
We heard from Zouheir Lakhdissi who is an AI consultant, and someone with a lot of real experience in the space and what I appreciated most was that he just came in and told the truth. He was not here to sugarcoat anything and I respected that a lot. The part that stuck with me the most was when he talked about how being average at your job is not going to be enough going forward. AI is raising the bar and if you are just coasting you are going to feel it, and that is not the most comfortable thing to hear as a student who is still figuring everything out but it is definitely better to hear now than later. He also framed AI as almost like a new wave of transformation for how we work and live, and while I think the potential is genuinely there, I also think it is worth remembering that big shifts like this do not automatically make things better for everyone equally. The benefits tend to reach some people way faster than others and I think that deserves to be part of the conversation too.
What makes my take on this a little different is that I actually work as an AI data trainer so I am not just watching this from the outside, I am literally part of it. And on top of that I use AI in pretty much everything I do, lists, templates, finding sources, getting unstuck when I have no idea where to even start. It is honestly one of the most useful tools I have and I am not going to pretend otherwise. But I do think there is a limit and that limit shows up the moment something requires real human understanding. The kind of problems that are messy and emotional and deeply human are not something AI can fully figure out on its own. It can help you get there faster but the actual thinking still has to come from somewhere real. I think what is going to matter most going forward is not whether you use AI because everyone does at this point, but whether you still know how to think without it.
After all of that my brain needed a full reset and honestly my stomach had been asking for something familiar all day so we hailed a taxi and went and got KFC that was in a huge mall (I don’t remember the name) and I have zero shame about that whatsoever. Sometimes you just need a little taste of home! After that we wanted to find the marina and somehow in the best possible way we accidentally ended up wandering right by the big mosque in Rabat, which was honestly so funny to me because I had actually looked it up on AI before the trip when I was researching beautiful places to visit in Rabat and there it was just standing right in front of us in real life. We wandered around the mosque, found the marina, and then had the most gorgeous walk back along the outside of the medina. It was a side of Rabat we had genuinely never seen before and it honestly stopped us in our tracks. The kind of beautiful that sneaks up on you and you just have to stop and take it in for a second.
