Mr. Seán O'Sullivan:

First, we need enhanced education and training to promote AI literacy across all education, for both students and teachers. We need industry partnerships and to collaborate with AI industry leaders, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Microsoft. We need to inform policy, influence research and create further opportunities for AI and its application to post-primary education in Ireland. Last, we need more research into AI integrity in an Irish setting. Many of these projects that are to be seen here today were conducted in individual secondary schools. To assess the usage of large language models, for example, by Irish students when they are creating their homework assignments, we need to pilot research into how prevalent usage of large language models is across the island of Ireland in all secondary schools. This would be really telling in respect of how we would need to inform our assessment methods. Through that pilot, we might find new approaches to examinations and assessments to address AI-related challenges.