Sinéad Gibney (Dublin Rathdown, Social Democrats)
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If we are coming at it from the research point of view, we must make sure there are principles embedded into the research process itself that will allow for that to happen. This is important in terms of access to justice and particularly for people, for example, in social protection environments who might have a decision made against them where there is no appeal process, and we know this from other jurisdictions, because there is no human involved in the decision-making that led them to a poor outcome.

I will zoom out a little and talk about regulation specifically. I really welcome those closing words of Dr. Seoighe's statement, "our job is to make safe AI, not make AI safe", and that emphasis on how AI should have safety built in rather than the controls introduced later. However, as I said in my opening comments, with policy still flagging behind innovation in this area and private companies dominating the creation of AI, how do we deal with a horse that has essentially already bolted and what I would describe the lack of Government oversight regulation and control of AI development? How are we going to catch up?