Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. John Sherwin:
Deaf people and disabled people are using AI tools to refine their English, including ChatGPT, OpenAI and different products like that. There needs to be some training around the results that people are getting as well because people with low levels of English language literacy do not necessarily recognise some of the hallucinations that happen in LLMs and whether the information coming back is correct. In the Irish Deaf Society, we have a strict policy that people must edit their AI content after it is produced. There is a learning there. However, there are benefits. We are focusing here a lot today on concerns and fears but, at the same time, AI can unlock clear communication, particularly in spoken languages, and translation that can be of benefit to disabled people and deaf people.
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