Mr. Paul Johnston:

I will ask Professor Wade to speak about this in a moment. From my experience, in only three or four months in the job, going around speaking to employers and a range of people we get the sense that AI will be massively transformative, and that AI and the wider digital revolution will change how we work and live and, therefore, it will change how we teach and what we teach. One of the things that does come out of it, and I was at the Minister's skills round table yesterday, is the importance that people place on human capacity and skills. They will continue to do so, and in some ways it will be even more important in the world of AI, not only from a workforce point of view but from a society and democratic resilience point of view, that young people - and not so young people - have the human capacity and skills to navigate a world of complexity, misinformation, disinformation and populism. At a democratic resilience level, in a world of AI it is important to have critical thinking and original thinking skills. In the workplace AI may suppress and compress a lot of jobs but it will mean the people there will need to learn how to manage AI and learn from it, and learn to apply original and critical thinking skills. Professor Wade has run Trinity's AI programme and can give a proper response to this important question.