Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion
Mr. Eoin O'Reilly:
We all recognise that the technologies now available are much more pervasive, capture more information and have greater capabilities to do things that we do not want people to do. However, we should also recognise that, over a long number of years, data has been available on employees, on how they are moving around the office, on how they are using email and all those types of things. Just because companies have it does not mean they should be doing something with it. We need to take the same approach when the technology is more powerful. As Mr. Lee said, as we are thinking about the potential use cases, we need to think about it in the same light. Just because they have the information and tools does not mean they should do something with it. Organisations need to be very careful in identifying the risks of every use case we define for AI and how it will be used day to day.