Government should set up national AI office to deal with 'harms' being caused to Irish society

Several of the Dáil committee's recommendations focused on the use of AI in systems used by social media firms, in particular how AI could be used to send children down 'rabbit holes' of negative content.

Ireland should take an “immediate, coordinated and all-of-Government approach” to artificial intelligence and establish the first national AI office next year, an Oireachtas committee has recommended.

In its first interim report, the Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence said such an office must root out the harms being caused by AI in Irish society as part of 85 recommendations it has made to Government around the nascent technology.