Niall Boylan

Niall?

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people, I think, in the industry, I know people who work in the tech industry,

And they're extremely worried at the moment.

I spoke to one there recently, and he was saying there's a lot of layoffs in his particular place where he works that he's concerned, even though he'd be in a very good position.

I think Ireland is probably very financially vulnerable here too, of course, because we rely so much on the tech companies in this country.

But I thought Lucinda Creighton's article was really interesting.

She said basically one approach should be to focus and develop an expanding labour-intensive work and AI-resistant work and jobs in the future.

Because this is not like back in the 70s when we were concerned about the ATM machines or concerned about the self-checkouts

where we thought, oh, well, look, somebody has to make those self-checkouts.

Somebody has to design that software.

So those jobs will be just replaced with other jobs.

The difference with AI is it replaces itself.

In other words, it's designing its own software.

So there's nothing to replace it with.

So there's no job that's going to be made available.

Well, there will be some, but not a huge amount.

So I think we have to be really concerned because I think we're very vulnerable in this country because we have so many tech companies in this country.

And I think this comes back to focusing on talking to young people about alternate careers.

I mean, we're missing so many manual careers.

You can be a millionaire now if you're a plumber or an electrician, but they don't want to get their hands dirty because they've grown up in this technological age, which is going to be replaced by AI, where nobody's going to be needed to design these programs anymore, these apps or whatever it happens to be.