Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

That last point would raise the old issue of bias and so forth.

One of my sons used a pair of terms against me once, saying there were digital natives and digital immigrants. That raises the issue of older people who were not born in the information age.

I have seen it proposed that using this technology changes the way we think, as all new technologies have done in the past. The witnesses might comment on this matter.

I invite Accenture to tell us about its GenAI studio in Dublin. What goes on there? We in Leinster House are sometimes accused of being in a bubble. It certainly seems that we are where AI is concerned. Should we all go down to Accenture’s centre and get trained up in this area?