David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is going to impact on every area of life as we know it. We will probably need many more AI Acts in various areas to contain it to some extent. I doubt we can control it, given how large it is growing. We have the world’s computing power at our fingertips. We can ask Google, Alexa, Siri, ChatGPT or whatever and have an answer within seconds. AI can do all of the other tasks the witnesses spoke about as well.

Earlier Deputy Shanahan and I spoke about the idea of creating an Oireachtas committee to specifically deal with AI, maybe in the next government, because AI is so transformative and so huge.