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:

In the first instance, the organised collectives would be things like trade unions. However, I am really referring to a broader issue with AI, which comes down to things like MRI scans, which I mentioned. The experience in the field is that context is most important in most things, including a lot of medical processes that rely on things like scans. The contextual understanding of what is going on is most important. That applies to everything, from education to government activities. There is the idea that AI gains its power by claiming to be this universal answer. In fact, we find that every situation has specific things that make things work. They may not be things written down and eaten by an AI. They might not be transparent to technologies and are generally dependent on people. Without being long-winded, in any context the group of people who are the most essentially insightful in that context should have a say about how much AI is introduced in that situation, if at all.

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