{"id":436518,"date":"2026-05-07T07:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436518\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:55:16","slug":"were-seeing-a-clear-signal-that-ai-is-not-displacing-jobs-accenture-ireland-boss-says-its-all-about-change-not-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436518\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re seeing a clear signal that AI is not displacing jobs\u2019 \u2013 Accenture Ireland boss says it\u2019s all about change, not catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Accenture is a true AI believer, but Hilary O\u2019Meara says we\u2019ve got years of disruption ahead\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hilary O\u2019Meara, country managing director of Accenture in Ireland. Photo: Shane O\u2019Neill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IB Hilary O1Meara_3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Hilary O\u2019Meara, country managing director of Accenture in Ireland. Photo: Shane O\u2019Neill<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I am probably showing my age by wondering if AI crossed with robots such as Elon Musk\u2019s Optimus will be able to look after me at home when I\u2019m older.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But Hilary O\u2019Meara wonders the same thing \u2013 and it\u2019s one of the seemingly endless possibilities that the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence development promises in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accenture is a true AI believer, but Hilary O\u2019Meara says we\u2019ve got years of disruption ahead Hilary O\u2019Meara,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,2334,219,2670,61,60,10099,1682,80],"class_list":["post-436518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chatgpt","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-mulligan","tag-openai","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}