Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)

I believe that AI is real and significant but I just feel that there is a lot of boosterism going on with it that is designed to boost people's share prices. It is kind of like what we saw with the dotcom bubble. All of a sudden, everything was dotcom or blockchain. Everything is currently AI, even stuff that previously was not defined as AI but as computers doing stuff. Is there not a danger that the witnesses are feeding into this hyperbole about AI? I have challenged Micheál Martin for saying that it is as significant as the printing press and Dr. Scanlon is saying it is more significant than the printing press.

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