Malcolm Byrne (Wicklow-Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I welcome our witnesses. Dr. Ciarán Seoighe is the deputy chief executive of Research Ireland and will give the opening statement. Professor Alan Smeaton is emeritus professor of computing at Dublin City University. Dr. Susan Leavy is assistant professor in the school of information and communication studies at UCD. We will be hearing from them presently.

I will invite each member to speak for a maximum of two minutes, which I know can be a challenge, to set out their vision for the committee or what they see as opportunities, challenges and so on of artificial intelligence, AI. There is a speaking order for questions, but I will go left to right, if that is agreeable. I invite Deputy Paul Murphy to speak first on his views on the opportunities and challenges of AI.