The Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence (AI), will meet this morning "to discuss successful AI public sector programmes" at 11.00 am. The timing is interesting, as it coincides with polling, reported on the IFSC news website, that shows almost half of senior level executives in Ireland’s financial services industry anticipate an AI stock market correction and believe such a correction would “reduce the hype” around AI and help firms adopt more responsibly to the technology, with a majority of compliance experts in the financial services sector (77%) saying there's either limited use of AI in their own organisation or that they are watching the technology from the sidelines.
Finally, Ireland’s sika deer has been declared an invasive species in the European Union, raising questions around whether it must now be culled. Sika was added to the EU list of alien invasive species of union concern last summer. Notice that the addition applied to Ireland was only published in recent days.
Your Zen this morning is a report, from yesterday's broadcast of Today with David McCullagh, about a transition year project in which students meet with older people from their community to assist them with laptop, smartphone and other tech issues. Leaving aside RTÉ's description of 'the elderly' (what is 'the elderly'?) it's a heartwarming tale of people connecting.
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