Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The AI Action Summit issued the Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet. That sounds wonderful. It is how we deliver it and what our plan is in this State in that regard. We all know the dangers of artificial intelligence in the sense that it is the garnering of information and machine learning on a huge level, or on steroids for want of a better term. That can be used for good and ill. It is how we wed the absolute necessity that we are part of this in the context of innovation and the breakthroughs there may be in medicine and education and all around while, at the same time, having sufficient protective regulation. We have all seen the damage that has been done and we all know there are insufficient supports and protections in what social media companies can do at this point. That is only one part of the danger in this regard. Therefore, it is how we set out with a real plan on delivery as regards innovation and beyond, but also that we have that regulation to protect those who are vulnerable at this point in time because of big tech. Many times it will go where the money is and not necessarily where people's rights are.

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