Mr. Fionn McWeeney:

In the next 15 years AI could be in every part of our society and I suspect it will be. I met a woman on the train this morning who was going to a hospital. She spoke to me about AI. She said that she sees such a lack of resources and employment in hospitals now and they are simply not operating at the speed that they should be. She told me that she wants to see AI put in every corner of the healthcare landscape. She wants to see the management of files automated. She wants data to be used through AI. This is something we have to focus on.

If I can give one recommendation to the Government today, I would like to say that for the people my age we need to make AI an essential part of the school curriculum at both primary and secondary levels. We need to be able to identify when AI, deepfakes and fake videos are being used. When people are saying things in a video and it is fake, it needs to be identifiable from the get-go. That is what we need to see.