適応は私たちの最大の落とし穴か？ | Sulaiman Adewale | TEDxOsogbo

WhatsApp内で動作するAI搭載の会話型銀行アシスタント、Xaraの創業者であるSulaiman Adewaleは、最大のリスクは技術の陳腐化ではなく、とりあえず動くシステムに慣れてしまうことだと論じています。インターフェースを使わず、ユーザーが普段使う言語での会話だけで銀行サービスを利用できるとしたらどうなるかを問いかけます。講演では、簡単な銀行取引への不満からXaraが生まれた経緯を説明しています。独立して運営されたTEDxイベントでの講演です。

• 最低限動くシステムに慣れることのリスク
• WhatsApp内で動く会話型銀行サービスXara
• ピジン語、ヨルバ語、ハウサ語への対応

What would banking look like with no interface at all, just a conversation in whatever language you already speak? This talk argues that our biggest risk isn't outdated technology; it's how comfortable we get with things that merely work. It challenges us to stop managing what's broken and start fixing it. Sulaiman Adewale is the founder of Xara, Africa's first AI-powered conversational banking assistant, built entirely inside WhatsApp. A self-taught software engineer from Osogbo, Osun State, he spent over a decade in software architecture before building Xara out of personal frustration: he found that even simple banking tasks meant fighting an interface that wasn't built for him. Rather than adapt to broken systems the way most of us quietly learn to, he asked what banking would look like with no interface at all, just a conversation, in whatever language a user already speaks, from Pidgin to Yoruba to Hausa. Launched in 2025, Xara now serves over sixty thousand users and has drawn interest from major financial and technology players, including xAI. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx