Artificial Intelligence
Dail Éireann — 2024-06-25
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Patrick O'Donovan (FG), Limerick County

I thank Deputy Stanton. The answer is "Yes". In my first response, I stated this was one of the greatest risks to the integrity of the third level sector - and to the second level sector to a degree - when it comes to ensuring what is submitted by the learner or the student is the work of the learner or the student rather than the work of somebody else. That is going to be very challenging. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is looking after the overall Government approach to artificial intelligence but it has a particular and highly concentrated potential impact, both negative and positive. It could be very positive. We should not be over-cautious about saying there are many positives around it, but there are negatives. The negatives include a potential distortion of the third level system and its results and qualifications. This is something we are attuned to and is why the Department is investing so much time in this, why we have the officials working on it that we do and why we are working with the Department of the Minister, Deputy Burke, on it as well.

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Sitting date: 2024-06-25