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
Ms Dubheasa Kelly:
There are two areas we would like to highlight and bring to the regulators' attention. The first one is the voice of the young person being at the centre of that. Spunout is a youth-led organisation where we always place young people at the centre and we find it incredibly beneficial. For us, in engaging with our young people, they have brought to our attention they are highly concerned. While there were some positives in our consultation with them, there were predominantly negatives, which was in contrast to some of the contributions earlier today. Having them central to that would be key for us. The second is, and it goes back to what colleagues have said here, safety by design but including the guardrails such as that training around safeguarding and signposting.
As we mentioned in our statement, there have been reports from affiliates of ours, which deliver the same service in Canada and the UK. They have found increasing reports from service users that they have been signposted by AI. One of the things we are doing is looking at our post-conversation survey to gather data on that and we will report back on this.
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