Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)

The industry submission claimed that recommender systems play an important role in ensuring a safe, predictable and trusted online environment by making sure that users are connected to relevant and high-quality information. That goes strongly against the evidence the committee has heard so far in terms of people being pushed down far-right pipelines, anti-immigrant pipelines and eating disorder pipelines incredibly quickly after setting up blank social media accounts. Would Mr. Godfrey agree with that claim from the industry?

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