We need a smart strategy for the AI jobs revolution

Last week, while launching the government’s Future Jobs strategy in Dublin, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar turned his attention to the spinning jenny. The Taoiseach explained how the spinning frame and the subsequent mechanisation of textile production had changed the world of work forever by increasing capacity and significantly reducing the need for labour.

Drawing from the past, the Taoiseach looked to the future, arguing that this century will be transformed by automation, the internet ...