{"id":208705,"date":"2026-02-05T00:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208705"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:22:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:22:58","slug":"conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208705","title":{"rendered":"Conor Skehan: AI could deliver a few nasty surprises in 2026, so are we ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is unusually exposed to shifts in global technology. We are a small, open economy whose prosperity rests on being useful to much larger systems. We host platforms we do not own, depend on energy we increasingly struggle to supply, and collect tax from activities whose future shape we do not control&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/opinion\/conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready\/a582060452.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is unusually exposed to shifts in global technology. We are a small, open economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208705-conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready.jpg",720,480,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208705-conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208705-conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208705-conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208705-conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208705-conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready.jpg",720,480,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208705-conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready.jpg",720,480,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208705-conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready.jpg",720,480,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208705-conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready.jpg",720,480,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208705-conor-skehan-ai-could-deliver-a-few-nasty-surprises-in-2026-so-are-we-ready-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}