Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Rebecca Keatinge:

The phrase that jumped out at me in some of the research was "mass surveillance" in terms of the amount of data that is collected, including in the area of social welfare assistance, to digitise the process and to apply algorithms to so much information on individual citizens that is held by central government. That allies with the Deputy's point.