Bernard O'Shea

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?

Because they're saying here, I see Accenture, for example, there's interesting phraseology there, has warned it will exit staff who cannot be retrained for using AI in day-to-day business.

So that's important conversations we need to have around AI and the future of our young people and what they're going to work at and what we're all going to work at and how we're going to occupy our time and about the distribution of wealth and all those big questions.

And then there's the climate crisis and then there's the social media thing and then there's, oh my word, there's a lot going on, isn't there?

I see Greece are banning social media for under-16s.

and that's going to come into effect from 1st of January, 2027.

We haven't done anything like that yet.