Professor Muiris MacCarthaigh:

I have read the omnibus but I have been more about observing what is something of a global race to try, somehow, to keep abreast of AI developments between the EU Act, the legislation in the United States and China developing its regulatory frameworks.

We are in the middle of this phenomenon where the technological advances are happening quicker than the governance and while the State can do an awful lot, it can only do it in collaboration with other states. It is quite a task to keep pace with the levels of technological change, as we have heard.