Also I feel very much like I was just at an Enterprise Ireland announcement, not a Research Ireland one. Major focus on industry, commercialisation of research, turning scientists into entrepreneurs, creating a talent pipeline for industry, and an overriding theme of fairly ill-defined "scale".
The leaders of Ireland's new Rinn national research network.
I can only assume from this line-up that women in STEM initiatives are failing to produce results.
The fact that Musk provoked racist violence on X the same day the rules for scanning all online content to check for teen nudity were announced shows the impacts approval seeking and headline chasing has on policy. Govt caught looking the wrong way.
It is strange that in many countries the Venn diagram of "politicians pushing social media bans for children" and "politicians pushing AI in all venues, including education" is basically a circle
Either you want to protect kids from misinformation and harm to their mental health or you don't