Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Dr. Patricia Scanlon:

Everybody will have a different answer. We all come from different perspectives, including academia, business and law. We will all have a different opinion about what should be done. Personally, I have a big issue with social media and how AI is superpowering that. We had poor AI and lesser-powered machine learning ten years ago and it still had such an impact. It is getting better at understanding how we respond and how it can influence us. That will have political and societal ramifications. I would like to see more done on that because AI is having a bigger influence on society.