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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Members participating remotely are required to do so from within the Leinster House complex only. So far, apologies have been received from Senator Garret Ahearn. Today we will look at the impact of artificial intelligence on business. In October 2023, the committee reported on artificial intelligence in the workplace. One of the key observations of the committee was that further...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Ms O'Meara. I now invite Mr. O'Reilly to make his opening remarks on behalf of EY.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Thank you. I now invite members to discuss the issues with the representatives present. I call Deputy O'Reilly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome our guests this morning it is very timely to have representatives of three of the leading agencies that integrate with government. They will have a pretty important position to use their learning to influence the Government. I am more interested in high-level policy than the individual activities. We could spend all day talking about how AI cuts across all the different things. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: When the witnesses are engaging with the Government, as I am sure they will from time to time, it is very important that the Government looks at the tax situation and how we can incentivise investment. That is going to be the biggest problem for small businesses to invest in the platforms and technology.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: I apologise for being late this morning. I was in the Dáil Chamber. There is some news that may be of interest to the Chair and is, perhaps, related to the issue being discussed here. I was pushing this for quite some time with the Government. It has now decided that spouses and partners of intracompany transfer employment permit holders can work here straight away. They do not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: It is a very good suggestion. It is something we need to start seriously looking at. This whole technology area is moving so fast it is being called the fourth industrial revolution. I have been looking at some stuff recently. From the time paper was invented to when the printing press was invented, took 75 generations. This technology has moved forward in less than half a generation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: Okay. It is an interesting concept whereby companies get a third party to simulate a cyberattack.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: We are all concerned about the fact that white-collar workers will be more impacted than blue-collar workers by this technology. I was a teacher in a former life. I have seen that GenAI can actually become a scarily good teacher. It also works well for interpretation skills. We can speak into this and it will speak back in any language required. It is a bit like what they had in Star...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The universal translator

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: Well done. Deputy Shanahan has it. I was just testing to see if he was paying attention. We now have a universal translator. It goes on and on. So many jobs which we cannot even guess at now will be impacted by this technology. Would the witnesses agree that the legal profession, among other white-collar professions, is concerned about this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: We could talk about the impact on politics, which probably does not impact on the witnesses. This is being created by businesses in many ways. My good friend here could be portrayed as saying something terrible just before polling day. That would destroy his political career and he would not be able to do anything about it. The videos are so realistic. We need to start educating people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: This is hugely important. It worries the hell out of me because any of us in politics could be impacted by this and we could be destroyed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: I will ask one final question, if I may. We know this can be used to create miracle drugs and do an awful lot in medicine. It can edit DNA and people can even do that now in the back of a garage. They do not need a laboratory. Anyone can do this because it is open source. With respect to rare diseases, it can also create pathogens. That is the other, dark side of this. No one country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank our guests for raising the issue of politics and the misinformation that might occur during elections. That is really important. Last year the Mayor of London was undermined in a video that even his own family believed was him speaking about a contentious parade that was about to take place. Police were deployed on the streets to prevent rioting and that all came from a fake AI...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Next is Deputy Stanton.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: That last point would raise the old issue of bias and so forth. One of my sons used a pair of terms against me once, saying there were digital natives and digital immigrants. That raises the issue of older people who were not born in the information age. I have seen it proposed that using this technology changes the way we think, as all new technologies have done in the past. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Before we sign up to doing anything, it would be better if the Oireachtas allowed us to access AI sometimes. It has blocked some of the platforms. My apologies for interrupting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: This is going to impact on every area of life as we know it. We will probably need many more AI Acts in various areas to contain it to some extent. I doubt we can control it, given how large it is growing. We have the world’s computing power at our fingertips. We can ask Google, Alexa, Siri, ChatGPT or whatever and have an answer within seconds. AI can do all of the other tasks...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Yes.