Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion

Toby Murphy:

I would like to refer to what Bel Nabulele and Sinead Murray said about age restrictions and identification in that regard. A specific worry I have about AI is sexual violence online, specifically grooming. Older men or women can go online, on Google or Google Chrome, get photos of young teenage boys or girls and portray themselves as them. They can go onto Snapchat and talk to young people.

It hurts me to say it, but it is so easy for people to get sexually assaulted online from the way AI is progressing and its technological advancements. It is so easy. You will not know who you are talking to anymore. You will not be able to tell if it is an actual teenage boy you are talking to, or a 50-year-old man behind a phone screen or laptop.

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