Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. John Sherwin:

There have to be guardrails there about the efficacy of any LLM to reproduce authentic, native sign language. We see it all the time with technology and we see it even in schools here with teachers signing. They are not signing correctly or there are mistakes. We see it in technology. That is not visible to the hearing audience. They see some signing happening on screen and there is an assumption that it is correct, whether it is communicating clearly or not to deaf people, which others have no visibility of. There is a requirement for guardrails around that, but the countries that have developed a corpus would, of course, be in line for benefiting more quickly around AI-powered sign language resources.