Professor Muiris MacCarthaigh:

On what the committee is doing, the co-ordination between the state bodies and interests responsible for regulating the different ways in which AI is affecting different parts of democracy and government is important. Even the creation of this committee of itself, to have a forum to bring people together and make sure there are no gaps in the broad regulatory framework, is a good idea. It is about trying to keep as best we can some kind of handle on things.