Mr. Fionn McWeeney:

I thank the Deputy. Expanding on Deputy Geoghegan's question asking how my generation feels about AI, I believe the majority of people are quite accepting of AI. As Ms French said, AI and OpenAI are not Skynet. We are used to AI now. We have grown up in a digital world. We have had the technology since we were born. We have been on the Internet. We have all of this information. The main fears for people are deepfakes and, as Ms Blackwell mentioned, AI videos, whether that is revenge porn or AI deepfakes that can lead to cyberbullying or harassment. That is quite a common fear among people. As we come into a world where AI is more accessible than ever, that fear is growing.

Regarding the question on privacy, it is not something people have paid a lot of attention to. When we go onto a website now - even the Oireachtas website - it asks us to accept cookies. Nobody really knows what cookies mean anymore. We go onto any website, we click accept all, and we do that everywhere. Our data is being harvested in every part of the Internet. We cannot imagine how much data is being harvested by AI, ChatGPT and DeepSeek and all these different places.