Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We had a very good session on AI at the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment last week. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan raised the issue of jobs being displaced. I would have a particular concern about jobs being displaced by AI. Effectively, we are talking here about a platform worker who has not necessarily been sacked but who, because of the way the algorithm works, does not get any shifts the following week. If you are not working, it is the same as being sacked. There would be no involvement of any individual to take into account the worker's circumstances in this case. There are all sorts of reasons why a worker might not turn up for work - it is easily explicable - but if we are only dealing with an algorithm, it is a case of ticking that box and the person does not get any shifts the following week. At any stage in this process where there is an impact on workers, there must be human involvement. This was something the committee discussed. This is moving very quickly. I have a concern that some of the processes are moving far slower than this technology.

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