- Read more: AI and Inequality: Spotlight on the Key Issues Affecting Ireland
TASC has published a new report, AI and Inequality: Spotlight on the Key Issues Affecting Ireland. This report “examines who stands to benefit from Ireland’s rapidly expanding digital economy, and who risks being left behind. An estimated 63% of jobs in Ireland are exposed to AI to some degree, with around 30% facing a comparatively…
- 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: 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: Navigating the Adoption of AI for Policymaking
In this paper, the author draws on his experiences working with various types of public organisations across different countries at the intersection of economic policymaking and computational methods to argue that the current hype for AI has unique characteristics that call for rethinking how public institutions adopt this technology for policymaking. The paper underlines that…
- 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: Future of the Irish State: 2025 and Beyond
The report on “Future of the Irish State: 2025 and Beyond” by the Think-Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC) was published on June 3, 2025.
- Read more: PeatSense: Facilitating Evidence-based policy-making for Nature-centric EU Regulations and Irish Peatlands
This paper argues that evidence-based policy-making, policy take-up and social acceptance are fundamental policy elements for effective nature restoration. It also argues that science and technology – more specifically remote sensing and artificial intelligence – could be leveraged to continuously monitoring nature restoration and for reporting. Moreover, it advocates the publications and sharing of such…
- Read more: Ireland’s AI Advisory Council Report to Government: “Helping to Shape Ireland’s AI Future”
The AI Advisory Council has published its latest report, ‘Ireland’s AI Advisory Council Recommendations – Helping to Shape Ireland’s AI Future (February 2025)‘. This report outlines key opportunities and strategic policy recommendations aimed at accelerating AI adoption in Ireland while safeguarding the nation’s economy, competitiveness, workforce and society. This report, alongside the council’s previous reports,…
