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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. Witnesses are again reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable or otherwise engage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...and enhance productivity. We can do this by upskilling employees, investing in necessary infrastructure, accelerating the green transition and harnessing the power of new technologies such as AI. Along with sustainability, digitalisation is reshaping all of our economies and AI stands at the forefront of this transformative wave. Although the full extent of its economic and social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...environment and technological disruption, including but not limited to AI, contribute to a position where nearly three in ten Irish CEOs who responded to our 2024 Irish CEO survey are concerned about their long-term business viability, a concern that is even more pronounced at a global level, where 45% of respondents expressed a similar concern. The same survey found that the majority of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...the Irish Centre for High-End Computing in Galway, has been obsolete from November 2023? There is no replacement supercomputer in the pipeline despite the fact that we have known about this for a long time. The State will now have to use the supercomputer in Luxembourg. Such failures of public investment in capital infrastructure for computing and our national supercomputer will have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...with Deputy O’Reilly earlier, it is not a case of getting it out there and seeing how it happens. Rather, it is a more considered view to it because they know they will be with this for the long term. Looking at the skilling piece, much of the conversation will revolve around what we can do to the current workforce. We need to think further back, to the kids going through first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...now available are much more pervasive, capture more information and have greater capabilities to do things that we do not want people to do. However, we should also recognise that, over a long number of years, data has been available on employees, on how they are moving around the office, on how they are using email and all those types of things. Just because companies have it does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...become a scarily good teacher. It also works well for interpretation skills. We can speak into this and it will speak back in any language required. It is a bit like what they had in Star Trek long ago. This is science fiction becoming science fact and then some. I think it was called a communicator or something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...striking a balance and we have to walk that line as we go forward, but it is better to have innovation in the context of responsible AI than not, and I think we are taking the right approach as long as we continue to encourage innovation. To go back to the idea of the Government having those sandboxes as a safe place where businesses can go to innovate safely, that is going to be very...