Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Sasha Rubel:

Building on Mr. Meade's emphasis on the frontier model forum, which we are also happy to be part of, we are convinced that AI safety challenges are global challenges and they need global, multilateral and multi-stakeholder solutions. That is why we support, for example, what happened in the Bletchley Park summit in the UK. Most recently, last week, there was a summit on Seoul. In 2025, there will be a summit in France. We see the need not only to have like-minded countries, industry counterparts and civil society around the table, but also to make sure that these conversations are global. It is why initiatives such as the UN advisory body on AI and the conversations that are happening are very important, alongside initiatives like the global partnership on AI, which involve not only like-minded countries but also countries beyond OECD countries being part of that conversation. It is also why, at the Bletchley Park summit, our CEO mentioned the possibility of a multilateral agreement with regard to notifications to train models. This is one avenue to make sure that not only big industry players but also individuals have the necessary frameworks to mitigate the risks, particularly with national security, which is front of mind for many countries, and the possibility of deploying these foundation models.

Returning to what I said at the beginning about how we can use AI to mitigate the risks that are present, there is a possibility, which we are already doing, to harness AI to make sure that models will not and cannot do certain things. That is an area of technology that we are exploring and doing much research on.