Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)

I have a more philosophical question about control and democracy. I opened WhatsApp a few weeks ago and all of a sudden I had this stupid AI thing that I did not want. I just want to chat to people. I could not get rid of it. There is no way. You can ask AI to get rid of it and AI tells you how you can get rid of it but, actually, the option does not exist. You cannot go into it. You google it; you cannot get rid of it. I did not want this. It is archived but it sits there. I did not choose that. Regarding Google, I google for anything now and the first thing I get is a generative response. People are not making these choices; someone else is making them. Who are they, on what basis are they making those choices and how can we have democratic and individual input as to whether we, individually or as a society, go down this road of AI being used everywhere we go?