Johnny Mythen (Wexford, Sinn Fein)
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I welcome the committee and I am looking forward to working with my colleagues. Hopefully, we can achieve something and put forward some good recommendations. Obviously, there are challenges. I have spoken about the climate element, but there are also challenges in the education, society and, as was said, culture sectors, particularly with regard to artists and musicians. It is the threat to those areas we must look at as well. We must look forward to innovations in medication and so forth, which will be integral to the whole thing.

I am concerned. My concerns relate to the human element involved in developing AI and what control and regulations we can have over that. Another issue that concerns me from reading some of the stuff is the language we use. We must use more concise and understandable language. If we have machines developing stuff, they could interpret language differently than its originally intended input, which could result in bad things. I am also concerned about bad actors and people with vested interests using AI for their own advantage and to the disadvantage of other people.