Artificial Intelligence
Dail Éireann — 2025-11-13
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Sinéad Gibney (SD), Dublin Rathdown

I am glad the Minister raised public trust because I feel there is this kind of pushback against regulation in terms of losing our competitiveness, missing opportunities and America and China racing ahead with their AI development. The issue I have is that their development will lead to products built in a regulatory environment that will not have public trust. We must look at that regulatory space and make sure that even the requirements Europe is putting forward to us meet the standards we want here. We have heard from colleagues already this morning that they feel we should be best in class. Sometimes I hear from Government spokespeople that we are best in class. I do not believe that is the case. For example, I do not believe the Data Protection Commission, DPC, has proven its worth in the past number of years. Even though it has the powers, it has not enforced them.
Similarly, if we do not get it right from the outset with the AI office - we already see online all the ways in which AI can go wrong, such as the slop which is currently generated - it will mean people will not use AI or trust it. It will fundamentally undermine our democracy and society. It is important we get it right from the outset. I encourage the Minister to look at the Paris Principles.

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Sitting date: 2025-11-13