Dee Ryan (Fianna Fail)

Good afternoon, everyone. The witnesses are all very welcome and I thank them for their contributions. They were very interesting and hugely informative. They will not be surprised that there are lots of similarities and crossover in themes which came up in our earlier session. Reflecting them back to the witnesses, I am sure they are not surprised that the AI recommender systems and that use of recommender systems to push hateful or harmful content came up across a lot of presentations today.

AI-generated deepfakes and misinformation also came up. I am curious to learn more about a topic that was raised earlier, which Ms Daly also mentioned, which is AI chatbots. Earlier, the contributor from the Children's Rights Alliance in its submission noted its growing prevalence. Will Ms Daly tell us more on the harms that are being seen? The Act does seek to deal with chatbots in some way. What are the limitations and what else does she think we should be doing to tackle this issue?