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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Last year, the International Court of Justice held that all states are under an obligation to abstain from entering into economic or trade dealings and to prevent trade or investment relations with the occupied territories. There was no mention of an obligation just relating to goods. Instead, it was all trade and investment relations. The Government has in the past few months discovered...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government lay the advice before the committee?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Over the weekend, the world’s biggest military power, under Trump, launched an unprovoked and illegal air assault on Iran. The Taoiseach has repeatedly refused to condemn this assault. I invite him again to condemn it now. We need to have a debate in this House on the US assault on Iran, the situation in the Middle East, and the imperative of defending our neutrality and ending the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their work and coming here today. I missed the opening statement but I read it. When they listed the risks, I was surprised they did not include climate change as a risk. Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: May I just quote here, "AI's risks to society, including bias, privacy erosion, job displacement, misinformation, threats to fairness, safety and human dignity, and impacts on the creative sector and intellectual property". I agree with all of those risks. These risks and immediate and significant, but Dr. Scanlon did not list climate change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: How big of a risk are AI and embracing AI to us meeting our climate targets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: How much more energy does Dr. Scanlon think data centres will use, both globally and in Ireland in the coming ten years as a result of embracing AI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: That has been happening, yet energy usage has still been going up and up. There is a concept called the Jevons paradox, which suggests that as we get more efficient at it, we end up using more and more. It is all very well to tell people not to worry and that the usage will reduce. If we had 100% renewable energy in Ireland now, this would be a different conversation and we could talk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I will come back in and maybe Mr. Blanchfield will respond to it. Dr. Scanlon discussed the risks and balance in her opening statement but what she is actually saying is that we need to have the infrastructure in order for Ireland to be a leader. I do not hear much of the risks she has outlined. The answer I am hearing from her is to go full steam ahead. I have not heard much in terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: In response to someone earlier, Dr. Scanlon said that we had never had a technology as transformative as AI. Does she stand over that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does Dr. Scanlon think AI is more transformative than the invention of the computer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is AI more transformative than the development of the Internet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is it more transformative than the printing press?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Dr. Scanlon told me that she was not an AI advocate, though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I believe that AI is real and significant but I just feel that there is a lot of boosterism going on with it that is designed to boost people's share prices. It is kind of like what we saw with the dotcom bubble. All of a sudden, everything was dotcom or blockchain. Everything is currently AI, even stuff that previously was not defined as AI but as computers doing stuff. Is there not a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I think it is fair of Dr. Scanlon to express her belief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: For many of the questions we asked, the answer we got was that there were no easy answers. How much extra energy are we going to use if we really go all in on AI? Is the council working on an answer to that? I accept that would be an estimate, but is the answer "No"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is it not putting the cart before the horse a little? In her opening statement or the council's submission, Dr. Scanlon advocated for accelerating AI adoption, encouraging responsible innovation and reinforcing Ireland's role in the global AI system. She is advocating that we invest in AI infrastructure, but without knowing whether it will make it impossible for us to meet our climate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but does council not have a duty to examine some of those risks? It seems to me that the approach is to headline the risks, say that they are not enough because the risk of not doing it is also a big risk, and then not investigate these risks further. What further work is happening in terms of climate, copyright infringement and jobs in this space? Are these areas where discreet work...