Alan Smeaton

Employees in the US, Canada, UK and India who work in certain divisions will be eligible to apply for severance packages.

For more on this, I'm joined on the line now by Elaine Burke, journalist and host of the For Tech's Sake podcast and here in studio by Alan Smeaton, Professor of Computing at DCU.

You're both very welcome.

Elaine, if I can just get the details on this from you first.

So making announcements like this and kind of indicating where your focus is lying as a business ahead of those financial results reporting is a tactic by these business many times over.

OK, Elaine, many thanks for that.

I want to bring in Alan Smeaton now, a professor of computing at DCU.

Alan, talking there about what's happening in the wider, in the markets in relation to AI.

Now, before the break, we were speaking to the AI Minister Niamh Smyth about her plans to increase AI adoption here.

Uh, with headlines dominated by threats to humanity from rogue agents, widespread job fears, and concerns that an economic bubble underpinning all of this could soon burst, what should the government's position on AI be? I'm joined now in studio by Alan Smeaton, who's emeritus professor of computing at DCU.

He's a board member of Ireland's AI office.

Eileen Culloty is an associate professor in the School of Communications at DCU.

But new research suggests artificial intelligence is already playing a surprisingly intimate role in our lives, with six in ten people in Ireland now turning to it for mental health support.

Alan Smeaton is Emeritus Professor of Computing and a member of the board of the AI Office of Ireland.

He's in studio.

Thanks for coming in, Alan.

OK, very interesting.

You'll be there yourself, of course, as well.

Very, very humble of you not to give yourself to mention Alan Smeaton of Eris as Professor of Computing and a member of the board of the AI

Office of Ireland.