- Read more: Keeping the Human in Command: How Ireland Can Lead on Accountable AI
When a person overrides an AI recommendation, that is the clearest evidence that human oversight is real, not merely procedural. This paper argues that Ireland can preserve those moments as verifiable records, turning the EU AI Act’s oversight duties into a practical model for accountable AI.
- Read more: Ireland, the EU Space Act and the Case for Satellite Broadband Transparency
This paper argues that the intensifying race among major satellite broadband operators to maximise launches risks entrenching market dominance, limiting infrastructure-sharing opportunities, and increasing strategic dependence on a small number of providers. For Ireland, as an island nation with strong interests in resilience, maritime and rural connectivity, and public-interest access, a proportionate transparency regime in…
- Read more: Gen AI for Local Governments: Findings from Dublin City Council Case Study
This study aims to address the question “what anticipated outcomes and potential challenges of AI/Gen AI adoption on public sectors’ current tasks are likely to impact public servants to adopt these technologies?” The findings of the study offer a nuanced understanding of the Gen AI adoption of public organisations and serve as a foundation for…
- Read more: Large Language Models For Social Policy: A Deployment Ladder Framework For Sustainability-Aware AI Governance
Large Language Models (LLMs) have eased the various processes behind policymaking specifically where analysis of large volumes of text is needed. This however comes at a heavy cost to UN’s sustainability goals and current research in the area seems to ignore this fundamental dilemma. In this piece researchers from UCD, TU Dublin and Zayed University,…
- Read more: Does Interacting with AI Make Us Think More Rationally?
A newly published study from University College Dublin finds that people hold a strong and consistent belief that artificial intelligence makes decisions based on logic and reason, while viewing human decision-making as driven by emotion and feeling. Crucially, this belief is not a trivial observation; it changes how people actually behave. When participants in an…
- Read more: Artificial Intelligence in Service of Society: Navigating Our Way Forward
The National Economic and Social Council (NESC) has published Artificial Intelligence in Service of Society: Navigating Our Way Forward.
- Read more: No Digital Omnibus! Why Europe Owes LMICs the Ethical Regulation of Generative AI in Healthcare
This paper argues that the EU’s recent digital and AI regulations could work as a multilateralist spine to unlock the potential of generative AI safely and ethically. However, the authors argue that Europe’s recent proposal of a ‘Digital Omnibus’ package may eradicate the so-called ‘Brussels effect’, and they urge the EU to carefully consider the…
- Read more: Guardrail the Judicial Mind: Preserving the Cognitive Integrity of Judges in the Era of LLMs
This paper examines the emerging threat to judicial cognitive integrity posed by the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as preparatory tools in judicial decision-making. Drawing on established psychological and behavioural research, it argues that judges’ interaction with LLM outputs predictably generates automation bias and cognitive offloading, subtly shaping reasoning even where judges remain formally…
- Read more: Judging by AI: Compromised Independence and a Threat to Human Rights?
This paper aims to uncover the potentials and perils of artificial judicial decision-making and focuses particularly on the risk of compromised independence of the judiciary and the possible impacts on human rights through the integration of AI in the judicial decision-making process. It concludes that modern AI tech tools have the potential to play assistive,…
- Read more: Extending the AI Talent Pipeline and Exploring Responsible Approaches to Inclusive Upskilling
In this paper, we will explore the evolving landscape of AI education in Europe and its limitations and AI literacy gap. The paper discusses how extending the AI talent pipeline with intentional inclusivity and a commitment to responsibility can transform AI from an exclusive engine of progress into a shared infrastructure of possibility, ensuring that…
