Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Johnny MythenJohnny Mythen (Wexford, Sinn Fein)

Deputy Geoghegan brought up the negative consequences. I read an article a couple of weeks about the American judicial system. They brought in an AI system for sentencing judges. The AI had done a situation where it had a black person and a white person. The AI decided that the black person was more likely to reoffend, so the system was giving the black person a higher sentence than the white person. That is the kind of area in which we have to be very careful. A national independent AI office was mentioned. How important is that independence?

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