Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Grace French:

Young people are actually fairly positive towards AI because we realise it is not going to be the massive problem it is exaggerated to be in the media. Robots will not take over the world at any stage soon. Young people tend to use it more as a tool. It is really positive in school work. With my peers, they look at it positively and they do not see it in a negative way. There is a slight fear of deepfakes but none of my peers have experienced that so I do not think it has come to their attention that it could be a negative. People should be educated to learn about deepfakes and why they are a possibility in future.