Professor Deirdre Ahern:

We talked a lot about AI literacy and this comes into play in so many ways. We also talked about digital divides. We must start embedding AI literacy into all schools, colleges and universities. We must embed it even into regulators and everybody. When I see where the first regulatory sandbox took place, that is in the UK with its Financial Conduct Authority, one of the things it had to do was hire in tech people on salaries they would not normally get in a regulatory entity. These kinds of things are so important. I refer to those kinds of people becoming what we call sector bilinguals. They will have their own expertise. It could be the case in law firms, for example, where lawyers will also have to know how to be able prompt things - although you are not supposed to ask AI anything you do not know the answer to. I refer to this sort of level of us all becoming aware and ensuring there is no head-in-the sand approach. I have colleagues who say they do not really want to get into technology but this is for everybody and I think we need to invest in it. This means investing in the regulatory sandbox. We also suggested an AI office, which I think it would be interesting to see.