Mr. Ryan Meade:

I will address the point about the use of AI to prevent hacking or cybersecurity issues. AI is central to our efforts in our trust and safety operations to ensure the prevention not just of fraud but also of the spread of harmful content online. I talked in previous committee sessions about how we train machine learning models to flag potential threats, whether harmful content, illegal content, fraud or spam. Year on year, they are becoming more effective at that. The Deputy can be sure that AI is being brought to bear to prevent any risks that AI may present which have been talked about today. It is important to allow that to develop.

The Deputy made a good point about the democratisation of generative AI. We have all mentioned statistics which already show that larger organisations are moving ahead with generative AI at a faster rate and to a greater extent than smaller businesses. I do not think that is the end of the story. The proliferation of new large language models and opportunities to engage with them has really taken off in the last couple of years.

There is a great opportunity right now for players of all sizes to get involved. It is probably fair to say that some of the most exciting obligations in generative artificial intelligence, GenAI, which we will be using in the next couple of years, are already being worked on by smaller developers, leveraging large language models which are brought to market by Google, Microsoft and by whoever else.