Bernard O'Shea

He's written a book on happiness.

He's written a book on Buddhism.

He's a practicing psychiatrist and he's a font of information.

So that's week six.

And then as a bonus episode...

Back when I was in the thick of it, back October, November, December, I sat down with Chat GPT and talked to Chat GPT about being human.

Which brings us nicely on to the ESRI report on AI.

So it says that AI adoption among Irish firms is likely to lead to job losses concentrated among highly educated workers, reflecting the strong exposure of high skilled occupations to AI technologies.

And they're saying it's going to impact on 7% of all jobs in the state.

It goes on to say that the research makes clear that AI adoption will lead to worsening income inequality under every scenario it considers.

Part of that will come from higher returns on investment, which will be largely concentrated among people who are already wealthy.

So the wealthy are going to get wealthier and there will be less jobs for the rest of us.

I'm wondering, I'm wondering, you know,

CEO forms are in by February there.

There's a change of mind opportunity up until July.

Have teachers, career guidance teachers, parents, have they discussed what choices that Levenser students are making with AI in mind?

Because you're making a choice about a course that will have you qualified in four years time.

will there be a job in that area?

Or will AI have taken over that job?

And what are we doing as a state to make sure that our young people are qualified?