Oireachtas committee report urges strong regulation of AI in public services instead of reliance

The report on issues around AI, Truth and Democracy has also called for smart glasses to be regulated to address privacy concerns and that smart glasses capable of covert recording without consent should be prohibited

The chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence Naoise Ó Cearúil said the misuse of the Grok AI tool to generate non-consensual sexualised deepfake and 'nudified' images of adults and children, as well as the emergence of deepfakes in the 2025 presidential election, 'highlight the profound harms that can result when powerful AI tools are deployed without adequate safeguards'. Photo: Riccardo Milani / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP

AI should be "strongly regulated" in public services rather than relied upon, an Oireachtas committee has said.

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence on Tuesday published its Third Interim Report exploring issues around AI, Truth and Democracy, as well as issues surrounding AI-generated non-consensual sexual imagery, including that of children.