Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion
3:00 pm
Bel Nabulele:
I agree there should be parental monitoring when you are on social media and when you are using AI and with all of the regulations. There should also be more education for young people on AI, to talk about how to use it and how not to use it, who made it and who gets the benefit of using the content. I come from a big family. I have ten siblings and my mum is a single mother so it would be impossible for her to mind all of us until we are adults in terms of using our phones or whatever.
On the subject of verification for social media platforms and AI, young people are smart and they evolve and will figure ways around IDs. They can get fake IDs fairly easily. They will figure out ways to go around things. Everything that has been said is important, but we also need to emphasise the importance of education in AI, so young people can regulate and figure out what is right and wrong for themselves.