AI is undermining democracy, Oireachtas committee to hear

TDs and senators to hear that AI portals' use of online journalism without payment is leaving quality journalism 'under existential threat' 

Eileen Culloty, an associate professor of communications at DCU and head of the Irish hub of the European Digital Media Observatory, will warn the Oireachtas AI committee that we may be repeating errors of the 1990s regarding tech deregulation. Picture: DCU

Information derived via artificial intelligence (AI) is “fundamentally unreliable”, while the prevalence of such data is ruining people’s ability to reason effectively, an Oireachtas committee will be told tomorrow, Tuesday. 

TDs and senators on the Oireachtas AI committee are set to hear that society is making “the same mistake again” in terms of a similar situation in the 1990s, when tech deregulation became the norm in order to support innovation.