Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland

2:00 am

Photo of Darren O'RourkeDarren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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Okay. My next question has an eye to a conversation on leaving certificate reform. There is some indication that the third level sector is already dealing with additional assessment components, something leaving certificate reform is dealing with, which is essentially continuous assessment, some of which would not be classroom-based. The human involvement would be in the loop, which deals with the potential for students to, for want of a better word, cheat and use AI to prepare course material which is then submitted. Do the witnesses have any experience of that type of thing at third level? Are there processes in place to control for and manage that? I do not know whether any or all of the witnesses want to comment.