Mark Blyth
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Sep 12, 2026
Richard CurranHOST
Well, we're also joined now by Suzanne Lynch, Brussels Bureau Chief of Bloomberg, Graeme Finlay, lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations in UCD, and Mark Blyth, William Orr Rhodes Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
Richard CurranHOST
Well, President Trump is currently at Farmley.
Richard CurranHOST
He's just gone inside with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, where they will have that private meeting.
Graham FinlayGUEST
So seeing this as a family trip, which seems to be how Donald Trump is viewing it as well, seems to be leading to a more...
Graham FinlayGUEST
Congenial and happy Trump and also a strangely sort of private quality to the whole visit thus far.
Richard CurranHOST
Mark Blythe, that interview with Eric Trump on RT Radio yesterday, one of the things when he was asked about our President Catherine Connolly's open and articulated views about his policies and protesting against them in the past, he said, oh, my father has often had meetings with people who they disagree fundamentally on things and by the end of it, they're hugging and singing Kumbaya at the end of it was how he put it.
Richard CurranHOST
That was always very unlikely to happen.
Richard CurranHOST
I'm not sure whether it's happened at all.
Emad MostaqueGUEST
But that opens up to soft robots.
Emad MostaqueGUEST
MARK BLYTH, JR.: But hold
Peter DiamandisHOST
on.
Peter DiamandisHOST
Emad, one second.
Noah BrierGUEST
So they're trying to figure out what is useful for it.
Noah BrierGUEST
MARK BLYTH I
Felix SalmonHOST
mean, there's also real productivity improvements, right? I mean, we had, what was it, waste management coming out and saying, we have AI telling our garbage trucks where to turn left and turn right, and we have managed to improve our margins by 190 basis points because now we have much more intelligent control over who goes where when, and that saves us money.
Felix SalmonHOST
I think one of the big stories of this quarter's earnings season has been a bunch of companies coming out and saying, we've pointed a bunch of ai's at that kind of thing and it improved our margins and we are now much more profitable as a result and that is broadly speaking the sort of bull case for the stock market right now is that companies are going to become much more productive and much more profitable because they are going to be able to use you know hiring a human intelligence is very expensive because humans cost a lot of money and they need you need to pay them salaries and health insurance.