Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion

2:00 am

Dr. Deepak Padmanabhan:

Yes. The process of transformation from the input to the output. If you use AI, some parts of it are necessarily obscured because there is AI in there, and AI uses a lot of complex information processing. AI sits in a very uneasy relationship with transparency because even if you are transparent about the fact that you use a particular AI tool, that does not take you to the next level of understanding as to how things are happening underneath that.