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 Jane McGarrigle:

One of the things we have not really had an opportunity to discuss is that we do not have a national picture, data or research into the emerging risks, opportunities and harms of AI technologies. From our perspective, it would be really important to invest in ongoing research into what children are getting out of the AI tools and what are the emerging risks for them so that we can build an evidence-based response to this. That would be one of our recommendations.