As the world is fast embracing the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its gradual dominance, the Vocational Service Committee, Rotary International, District 9111 in collaboration with FirmCloud organised a transformative class, titled: “Mastering AI to advance the ideals of Rotary,” which took place at Rotary Centre, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos.

The District Governor, Wole Kukoyi said that with the advancement of technology, AI is going to rule the world, adding that the advent of the Internet was great but that of AI is greater.

He remarked that it is therefore important for international organisations like Rotary International to identify with the world of AI to embrace the positive side more so that AI could be well related to the Rotary Four-way Test.

Chairman of the Vocation Service Committee, Adeyemi Benson, said the event was all about vocational competency and capacity building in Rotary to prepare the members for the future and continue to be relevant.

He added that AI has come to stay in terms of information gathering, sharing and management, disclosing that the United Arab Emirates would be organising a global summit on AI that would attract 180 countries.

He remarked that it was high time Rotary International began to think differently to revolutionize the club.

The Facilitator, Chief Executive Officer, Firm Cloud Limited, Kelly Oriabure, said the topic was to acquaint the Rotarians with the future and about the great changes that have evolved with AI.

He remarked that the implication of AI would be much more obvious as AI Personal Assistant, AI itself, Chart GPT, Voice Assistant and other different components of AI would be used to achieve daily tasks more efficiently, faster and more proficiently.

“The capacity for it to learn and relearn and improve is far more than what a single human being can learn and assimilate.  The level of information that an AI language model, for instance, can cope with is far more than what a single man can cope with,” he warned.