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

Gareth Scahill (Fine Gael)

I reiterate my thanks to all the speakers. Both the earlier session and this one have been very informative. The big thing I am getting from every representative body is education. That needs to form a part of everything we put into any report on this. I am not going back to Ms Daly specifically but, rather, to her organisation. On deepfakes, during the summer I was at a presentation when someone in the public eye told me a story about how only 20 images of them were needed to create an image which went out all over the place. It was shared in a number of places. This person had to go home and tell their parents that what was being shared was not them, but it was so realistic. The only reason the person knew it was not really them was that it featured an item of clothing that was not theirs. That is how dangerous it is. Ms Daly mentioned laws and changing laws. What specific laws would she like Ireland to introduce on this? I have a young family and I would hate to have that conversation with one of my daughters about some image that had been created. Ms Daly had information on the UK and Australia, which have moved towards an outright ban on these. Is that what the committee needs to look at? Do we need more targeted regulations on that?

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