Professor Gregory O'Hare:

By way of the proclamations or the concerns expressed by globally well-informed individuals, it is difficult to anticipate exactly where our destination will be in this regard. The things these people are counselling us with regard to are possibilities. There is nothing illogical about the considered opinion they are sharing with us. Will this come through to fruition? Who knows? This is a technology that is pervasive and is manifesting itself in all different spheres of life, many of which are for good, but we must also be cognisant of the possibility of more sinister uses of this kind of technology. I guess what the Deputy is referring to is this sort of sentient, almost autonomous-type reasoner that performs adjudications and reasoning that is far beyond any of the individual originators of these AI systems. This is a possibility in future.