Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Dr. Patricia Scanlon:

I can take that question too. The AI observatory is a unique opportunity for Ireland. We have so many factors in our favour. We are a small country. Enterprise Ireland has interactions with most SMEs here already. We would have access to information that we could quickly build. The analogy here is going to be like the inflation index. Can we build an inflation index comparison that could help to inform us concerning the impacts AI is having in the workplace and in schools to be able to make quicker and better policy decisions? I think we could lead globally on something like this and Ireland would benefit hugely from it because we would not be operating blind and would not be making policy decisions blind.

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