Dr. Ciarán Seoighe:

It will go some way towards it. As I said earlier, education and public discourse are also important – having these conversations, having this dialogue and recognising it is also changing. The answers we might get six months from now might be different from what we get at the moment in terms of all kinds of elements of AI. It is moving at incredible pace. That pace gap is a real challenge for regulators. There is a gap between the speed at which it is operating and the speed at which regulation is keeping up. How do we close the pace gap? We could try to close that regulatory gap by trying to stay ahead of it, or the way the EU acts and others are approaching it is just to provide guardrails that are indicative, send you in a certain direction and tell you how to manage and go around those, without being overly prescriptive because it moves at such a pace. As I talked about as well, there is also an importance to that independent, publicly funded research because it gives us that independent voice, which we can rely on to get advice into these Houses as well.