Ireland AI Strategy (2021)
Over the past year or more there was been a significant increase in publications, guidelines, regulations/laws and various other intentions relating to these. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been attracting a lot of attention. Most of this attention has been focused on how to put controls on how AI is used across a wide range of use cases. We have heard and read lots and lots of stories of how AI has been used in questionable and ethical scenarios. These have, to a certain extent, given the use of AI a bit of a bad label. While some of this is justified, some is not, but some allows us to question the ethical use of these technologies. But not all AI, and the underpinning technologies, are bad. Most have been developed for good purposes and as these technologies mature they sometimes get used in scenarios that are less good.
We constantly need to develop new technologies and deploy these in real use scenarios. Ireland has a long history as a leader in the IT industry, with many of the top 100+ IT companies in the world having research and development operations in Ireland, as well as many service suppliers. The Irish government recently released the National AI Strategy (2021).
“The National AI Strategy will serve as a roadmap to an ethical, trustworthy and human-centric design, development, deployment and governance of AI to ensure Ireland can unleash the potential that AI can provide”. “Underpinning our Strategy are three core principles to best embrace the opportunities of AI – adopting a human-centric approach to the application of AI; staying open and adaptable to innovations; and ensuring good governance to build trust and confidence for innovation to flourish, because ultimately if AI is to be truly inclusive and have a positive impact on all of us, we need to be clear on its role in our society and ensure that trust is the ultimate marker of success.” Robert Troy, Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation.
The eight different strands are identified and each sets out how Ireland can be an international leader in using AI to benefit the economy and society.
- Building public trust in AI
- Strand 1: AI and society
- Strand 2: A governance ecosystem that promotes trustworthy AI
- Leveraging AI for economic and societal benefit
- Strand 3: Driving adoption of AI in Irish enterprise
- Strand 4: AI serving the public
- Enablers for AI
- Strand 5: A strong AI innovation ecosystem
- Strand 6: AI education, skills and talent
- Strand 7: A supportive and secure infrastructure for AI
- Strand 8: Implementing the Strategy
Each strand has a clear list of objectives and strategic actions for achieving each strand, at national, EU and at a Global level.
Check out the full document here.
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