Diolch, Dirprwy Llywydd. 

'And we will build brutal energy cut into a much better home. It's a movement towards the beautiful legal scams and better share. And it was a gingelly deal, and I don't think they're never worth in a middle deal to be parted to Mexico.'

Not the most inspiring opening to a speech, I'll admit, but what sets this opening apart is what sets this debate apart. It was written by a robot, a gimmick carried out by The New Yorker last year. They fed 270,000 words spoken by Donald Trump into a computer programme that studies language patterns. It analyses word choice and grammar, and learnt how to simulate Trump's speech. It doesn't totally make sense, but neither does Trump. Although I like the term 'gingelly deal', I don't think it's yet part of the popular lexicon, but I opened with it because I want to bring the abstract into the real quickly. 

Until now, automation and robotics has largely been confined to manufacturing industries, but the exponential growth in the application of artificial intelligence will now hit every industry, every profession. Doctors, accountants, lawyers, translators—any role that has a repetitive element is likely to be impacted. It's estimated that around 700,000 jobs in Wales will be hit by automation, and we need to mobilise to prepare people for the change that is coming, and it's a big change. Indeed, analysts have compared the impact of artificial intelligence with the arrival of electricity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; it's that big a shift. The technology writer, Luke Dormehl, used the parallel to help us get our heads around the scale of the change that we are facing. That was a profoundly disruptive change that interrupted the regular biological rhythms of life: electric light allowed people for the first time to create their own schedules for work and play, so night and day no longer mattered, and it unleashed a chain of innovation. The network of wires ushered in a slew of connected devices that created industries and changed lives forever.