Bernard O'Shea

And she's a reverend, which I do like because it's something I'm not.

We often like things in other people that we don't possess ourselves.

And that's part of the explanation of opposites attracting.

We see things in other people that we would like to be, but we're not.

And we find that attractive.

Anyway, Siobhan McSweeney is there.

And next week, it's Roisin Ingle.

And the week after then, we've Professor Brendan Kelly, who's a psychiatrist, who's written or co-written 14 books.

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.