Artificial Intelligence
Dail Éireann — 2024-06-25
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David Stanton (FG), Cork East

Would the Minister of State agree this whole area is moving at an incredibly fast pace? Some of the very large companies are investing not millions but billions in the area and it has the potential to change everything as we know it. Will the Minister of State comment on the need to modernise the curriculum at third level to reflect the different skills people will need? Will he also address the serious ethical questions that arise as machines push beyond what human reasoning can manage and are applied in crucial areas such as genetics, medicine and so on? This is moving extremely fast. Are the State, the Department and the third level institutions able to keep up?

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Sitting date: 2024-06-25