Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Camille Loftus:

To reinforce the point, we had a digital strategy and we then had a digital inclusion strategy that ran separately from it. What got the focus was the main strategy and digital inclusion did not happen. It needs to be integrated as part of it. I agree fundamentally with what my colleagues have said.

We have no idea what the implications of this are going to be. Deputy Murphy mentioned that when we were told about digital in the first place, it was going to bring us closer.

We were going to know each other and do all of these kind of things. As it turns out, it has had a whole bunch of effects that nobody anticipated at all. That seems to be something that we can take is likely to happen exponentially with this particular piece of technology. On the issue of post-deployment monitoring, we are going to start picking up things that nobody thought were going to happen. If we are not doing that sort of monitoring and we are not requiring constant feedback in that regard, we are always going to be chasing to keep up. We are always going to be following round after this. Again, this is a regulatory issue.

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