The proposals would push Ireland beyond the EU’s baseline AI law, including switching off recommendation systems by default and creating a national AI authority by 2026.
Larger platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, are to ensure that mechanisms are in place which would prevent ‘disinformation’ and ‘deceptive content’ from going viral.
The Lancet decided not to publish the letter, calling their assessment “misinformation” and denying that one of the study’s authors had a conflict of interest.
Responding to some of the more spurious statements the UN secretary-general made during his address, Elon Musk asserted that the “UN is more likely to cause, rather than prevent disinformation.”
The agency’s chief was eager to draw a clear distinction between its efforts to counter false information and Orwellian, quasi-authoritarian efforts to exert total control over the information available to the public.
