Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 April 2024

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Dualta ? Broin:

The Digital Services Act goes into quite a lot of detail as to what risks need to be considered and what feeds into those risks. The design of the products and the recommender systems are among the things repeatedly mentioned and explicitly called out in the Digital Services Act. That is there. It is just not public yet. It is being considered by the European Commission.

On the whole-of-society approach, while I am in no way trying to absolve any responsibility on our part to do what we need to do in this space, this is why we are practically proud of the funding we have provided towards the establishment of the FUSE programme. That is a global first and something Ireland can be very proud of. It follows the UNESCO whole-of-education approach to bullying and harassment, which includes the online element. That is designed to build resilience and the healthy relationship teens and the whole school community can have with the online world, including social media. I will ask Mr. Miles to say a few words on design and so on.