Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion
2:00 am
James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
I thank the Chair and all the witnesses, in particular the young witnesses, for appearing. The future is bright based on the presentations the three of them have given and no doubt all three of them could be sitting on this side of the committee room at some point in the future. All joking aside, it is useful for us as politicians to hear from young people about AI.
I will frame my questions because in the Houses of the Oireachtas and across Ireland there are lots of people - tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of people - who still view AI as a sort of an abstract thing that they should be worried out. I was wondering whether our guests, as young people living in Ireland, could give us a flavour, without us prying too much into their personal lives, as to how they use AI in their day-to-day lives? Perhaps they could go through it, from Grace and Fionn to Mr. Murray. Will they give some practical examples of how they use AI, whether it be for education reasons, personal reasons or other reasons, or even that their friends might use?
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