Mr. Sean Blanchfield:

My understanding of the proposed role of the sandbox is not so much to enforce regulation but to assist companies in adhering to the regulations, although the regulations themselves are a bit of a moving target now, so it depends. According to the letter of the AI Act, which I have read, I think it is challenging for any company that uses AI in any capacity, including ChatGPT, to ascertain their position relative to it and they need someone to call. If we really had no obstacles, the challenge would be how to get a staff of probably several thousand people to help advise the bricks-and-mortar businesses of Ireland on how they can safely proceed without potentially incurring €35 million in liabilities and being unable to obtain professional indemnity insurance for their contracts to cover that kind of liability. In its current form, those are the kinds of challenges and assistance that would be required as handholding through that process. I hope those challenges get easier, because I am not sure practically how we can staff that kind of sandbox.