An eight-year old boy from a Lancashire town has been chosen to lead a Children’s Parliament debate on the future of AI.

Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s ‘Child Speaker Match’ is Bruno Fortuna, from Chorley, who will take part in the Wakelet Microsoft 365 Sir David Amess Children's Parliament online debate at 5pm tomorrow (July 25).

The Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School pupil and his family will travel four hours down to Essex to join Headteacher champion, Peter Spencer-Lane, in the online debate.

The debate about ‘Will Artificial Intelligence Help Or Destroy Humanity?’ will see more than 50 primary pupils engage in the discussion.

Bruno’s question to Rishi Sunak, which has been provided in advance of the session is:"Do you think that AI could take over thousands of people's jobs leaving them without money? And what will you do to stop that?

"Do you think AI would be able to do your job as Prime Minister?"

The family will be spending a few days at the seaside near Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the former constituency of Sir David Amess.

Bruno’s mum, Lorna Fortuna said: “So proud of Bruno and how much he is looking forward to learning more about AI, and it’s been really interesting hearing his thoughts and listening to him questioning mine on AI too!”

Bruno said: “I’m really excited about going down to Leigh-on-Sea with my family, and to chairing the debate about Artificial Intelligence with so many other children.

"It’s really important that we talk about AI because it could end the world and it could take over millions of jobs!

“I’m looking forward to talking about the good bits about AI too there and how it can help us learn new things.”

The first Children’s Parliament took place in October 2021. The children get to vote on key issues either online or during visits to Westminster.

The new recruits will be able to interact with other youngsters from across the UK via their avatars sitting on the online virtual green benches created by Wakelet Microsoft 365.

The event is named in honour of Sir David Amess, who was murdered by a terrorist while running a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea.