Professor Muiris MacCarthaigh:

The whole point is that it is happening so quickly, as Mr. O'Leary mentioned. It is great to see this committee getting into greater awareness of the different sensitivities in different policy sectors. In the area of decision-making, AI is changing the nature of public service work, what public servants do and how they think about information. Even if they are not using it formally in work maybe they are using it at home to help their thinking. It would be a very good day's work for sure to think about the intensity of risk, for want of a better term, in different policy areas.