Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Sean Blanchfield:

It is challenging. There are cultural implications. There are economic implications to sovereignty. For Irish cultural sovereignty, it is largely about creating a corpus of training data so that our language and culture can be understood by these models and they are not just regurgitating an Americanised view of Irish culture back to us, for example, when people are watching streaming shows that were generated by AI in the moment. Is that 30 seconds?