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

Mr. Reuban Murray:

I know nothing at all about cramming last minute. As regards my own life and how I use AI, I have recently graduated from university. A lot of the time, we talk about how we use AI beforehand and when you are looking at research but one thing I always thought it was great for was feedback. For example, making a submission to the committee - this is not what we have done in our case, just to clarify - and being able to say, in theory, this is what we have submitted and this is the framework of what they were looking for and ask how those things matched up. It is the same way for putting in an essay. You should never use AI to write an essay or anything like that but after you have written it, you can put in the marking scheme and ask for detailed feedback. That can help you and coach you.

There are a lot of practical ways outside of education as well. For example, if you are trying to catalogue loads of old books or something, you can take a photo with AI and use it to create a spreadsheet where it catalogues everything. There are loads of great and wonderful ways in which young people are actively experimenting to try to do these wonderful new things.

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