Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

I want to thank the Senator for challenging. I think I gave a slightly misleading impression. AI is obviously important in the way the platforms use it. It is also important in the way their users use it, in terms of generative AI producing deep fakes and so forth. That is also a part of misinformation and disinformation. All of those things will be important to us. I think AI is also something that could be raised under the European Media Freedom Act. The use of AI is part of what we regulatory nerds call RegTech. That is, how do we use technology to help us regulate better? We can use it as we gather data from the platforms to monitor compliance. We might use AI in those ways as we undertake other forms of digital forensics. That is something we need to look at. The question of RegTech is not unique to Coimisiún na Meán. It is something which other digital regulators are also looking at. There is a discussion going on between us and the other digital regulators at the Data Protection Commission, DPC, ComReg and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, about how RegTech might be used, and also what skills we will need, what kind of people we will need, and what packages it would take to recruit people like that into the digital regulatory space.