James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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This has been a really interesting discussion for us. Like Senator Ryan, I will thank the witnesses for having shown up to this committee meeting and having given very important contributions. I would not like them to think I am not interested in what they have to say.

Dr. McQuillan said something interesting. I do not want to misquote him but it was about AI sovereignty. If I understood him correctly, he said that the debate is not really about that and that it is being framed wrongly. I just wanted to tease that out a little bit. In my own mind, it is all about AI sovereignty because, if state actors or private actors are going to rely on one of these 11 LLM companies, which are all fighting with one another and which are, as Mr. Godfrey said, in a race with one another for profit, while various aspects of the private sector, the public sector and the State are feeding off these LLMs in their own specialist areas, it is not essential that we have as much control as possible over what these LLMs are doing, what they are producing and how the benefits are harnessed?