James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I thank the witnesses for coming to the inaugural AI committee meeting. It is greatly appreciated.

I will ask a general question that perhaps all the witnesses could give their tuppence worth on. President Macron held a big AI summit, to which the response was that Europe for too long had been about regulation and we needed to focus more on innovation if we were going to keep up with China and United States. Somewhere in the middle is the citizen we have to keep looking after. Where do the witnesses stand on that debate? What direction should Europe be travelling towards to ensure we get the best out of AI innovations that are taking place, but equally that we protect our citizens in as proportionate a way as possible?