Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion

2:00 am

Dr. Dan McQuillan:

On young people, it is a sign for optimism in a way that they are increasingly questioning the prevalence of social media and AI. They are at least starting to put down their phones, get together with people and restart real life.

On the creativity side, it is an interesting question because that is something that has come to a lot of people's attention. My daughter is angry about the way AI is swallowing people's creative output. As referenced in my colleague's opening statement, if we are deriving our ideas about whatever the future should be and how we should create this future from things that have already happened in the past and we are massively closing off possibilities, be they in music, art or how society should be in general, then creativity in its broader sense is what is most under threat here.

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