Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Committee Stage

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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The one difficulty with that, which the committee heard about last week, is that to get things right sometimes the slowest movements move as fast. I understand that there are a lot of moving parts in this but I also understand that the area of AI has potential for negative consequences. It is not all positive and there is a substantial risk involved. AI moves much faster than we thought and faster than the EU moves. Does the Minister of State envisage that at any stage we will have to make this legislation more robust to respond to the threat of AI? Is he satisfied that things will move quickly when the AI legislation eventually comes from the EU?