Dee Ryan (Fianna Fail)
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I thank the witness so much for coming to join the committee today. I apologise that I could not be here in person for all of the session. I was tuned in on the Oireachtas app.

It has been a fascinating discussion. It is so interesting to hear about what the witnesses are doing. My mind is kind of exploding with the possibilities. What is the future going to be like for us with AI? Are we going down a route where different sectors will develop their own trusted, perhaps closed, LLMs that will allow them to verify sources of trustworthy information that can be at their fingertips and they can ask deeper questions and get interesting answers.

I have a number of observations on the discussion, but I want to come back to what Ms Kalda said as I walked in. Did I hear correctly that it is not a closed LLM? AI Leap is satisfied that the guardrails are sufficient and that by working closely with its partners, it is managing any of the dangers that exist for anyone else using the products.

The witnesses also referred to regional disparities. Will they elaborate a little bit more on that for me? What are the regional differences that the witnesses are concerned may emerge? That is interesting for us in Ireland. When we think about an all-island society, we have our different regional interpretations of our shared history.