Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland

2:00 am

Dr. Susan Leavy:

What will cause it is a lack of access. We need a strategy in primary and secondary education for how AI is taught and what, if any, access to technology and services like language models is needed. There is a lot of promise of AI and education in terms of increasing accessibility and supports for different needs in learning. Those products are not widely available yet, but they will be soon. We must make sure that schools who need them have the resources and can avail of the cutting edge that technology has to offer. It is about ensuring equal access to both devices and services.