Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion
11:00 am
Mr. Seán O'Sullivan:
The development we have been seeing with generative AI in terms of language models could possibly be used for spam, for social media campaigns. Our first real exposure to AI turned against us. I do not quite mean it in that sense, but it could be used to exploit our own psychology using social media. For example, what Norma Foley has been saying about primary school students not needing a phone is important. Our current social media are designed by teams of psychologists and engineers to leverage the most fundamental circuitry in our brains. That is moving in another direction again. Large language models in an educational setting currently could be providing an advantage to students who have access to the more capable models in comparison with the students who might be slightly disadvantaged and do not. I am not sure.
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