If Ireland is serious about AI, we cannot simply become dependent on tools, platforms and systems built elsewhere.
We need to think much more seriously about AI independence, how we build the skills, resilience and capacity here at home so that businesses, workers and public services are not left exposed if external AI services are withdrawn, restricted or controlled elsewhere.
AI can bring huge gains in productivity and innovation, but we also need to prepare for the risks: dependency, job displacement and the need for rapid upskilling.
Ireland should be a leader in responsible AI adoption, but we also need the capability and resilience to stand on our own feet.
The problem with the UK is that northern communities have had too much power to cover up Muslim grooming gangs. So in this context, the new New Labour policy makes complete sense.
Watch: "I don't suffer from xenophobia. I don't suffer from racist thoughts. I don't suffer from racist impulses of any kind. But I am opposed to our ratification of this pact for a number of rational reasons...what is happening today is a huge mistake" https://t.co/Hy9OCsXGZH
Imagine being a young couple working and saving hard for years to try and purchase their own property and get on the property ladder only to be outbid by the government (local authority) for the property. Have heard two stories like this recently. Young people haven't a chance
Important turning point today @IrishTimes as Dr Martin Feeley is interviewed by Paul Cullen the Health Correspondent and allowed to address the public. Yes, the horse has bolted, but this pivot is a gentle part of the greater awakening from the Lockdown delusion and it is happening globally.
He is a man I know and deeply admire for his empathy, courage and professionalism, now you can know him too. Thank you Martin.
https://t.co/x8DlQnbQpL
@MichealLehane Students and hard working Irish people cannot get accommodation as it is. The knock on affect will be all our newly qualified professionals (nurses, teachers, doctors etc) will leave the country in droves the next few years. The country is in a downward spiral. Its a broken state
Unsure how these different sports attended the same government meeting this morning, with some concluding it was best to play on (rugby league and union) and others (football) deciding that the whole sport should grind to a halt at every level.
@EwanMacKenna In 2008&2009 the Irish people, led by the media, and politicans made property developers scapegoats for the FINANCIAL crash. They established Nama which wiped out the entire brain thrust of an industry. 10 yrs later we have arguably the biggest crisis this country has faced !
A reminder that inflation was already at 7% at Dec-31 before the Ukraine invasion. When you give people money for no output you generally get inflation. Politicians and media don’t care as inflation mainly hurts the poor. Hence their nonsense about it all being Putins fault.
The Committee and Members express our sympathies, sadness and solitarity with Benny, Tracey and all at Gings.
Named after the great Mr. Ging Duignan this place is synonymous with Carrick, the Shannon and good times.
The good times will return but for now there is sadness.
After being told it was “almost impossible” to stop transmission of the new variant, outbreaks are greatest in healthcare settings where masks are mandatory, the Government is bringing in new legislation for masks, presumably to be seen to be doing something even if it's futile.
Apropos the airport, what service is there in Ireland which is provided by the state or semi state entity which is customer friendly, efficient, and doesn't leave you dreading the process? The NCT, maybe? And that's run privately.
95% of state provided services are HORRENDOUS.
Closing down our power stations in the midst of an energy crisis in the hope that we will replace them with green energy sources at some indeterminate time in the future ill-serves this State.
📈Me on the issues with epidemiological modelling 👇
“Even our most basic liberties - under the Public Health Act 1984 - can be taken away with the stroke of a pen if a Minister has been shown sufficiently persuasive modelling, not even data."
https://t.co/QavxqIJnIT