Dr. Patricia Scanlon:

I do not think we have a choice. We ask that all these things be considered and not be pushed aside. Should we have turned off the Internet because we were afraid of it? What would that have done to Ireland's SME sector, our revenue, our tax base, our jobs and our hospitals? That worries me. I am not going to sit here and say there are so many concerns that we should just switch it off and decide not to invest. What would that do for us? I do not want to have been chair of a council that advocated just turning away from AI because there were too many risks. That would also be a risk, which is what I was trying to convey.