Dr. Kris Shrishak:

We can learn from the lessons of the UK's AI Security Institute, formerly the AI Safety Institute.

They have figured out ways to increase the salaries even though they are based within the UK Government in some sense. The salary caps are much higher. They have been able to attract people from academia and various industries, and people from senior and junior positions. That is something we can do. I have not seen if the Irish AI office is going to do that but that is one possibility, just on the salary aspect, to bring in more people.

The other thing is to figure out ways evaluations of AI systems can be done in close collaboration with research institutes. Ireland has good research institutes. That may be one mechanism where even if there is not sufficient in-house capacity for very specific aspects of AI, those things can be somehow outsourced to the research institutes which do have those capabilities. There are ways we can play around with that.