 has promised jobs in artificial intelligence as the future, with the University of Nairobi promising to offer a master's degree in artificial intelligence. But AI is a massive consumer of fresh water that is exhausting energy grids even in the developed world, a product that might be reaching the end of its hype cycle, just as people in the global majority are being encouraged to embrace it. Not to mention the explicit desire of employers in the creative sector to use it as an opportunity to hire fewer people or to pay them less.