Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion
2:00 am
Johnny 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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