##AISUMMITIE
"Today's AI summit brings together businesses, governments and civil society together" Minister Peter Burke TD

(fact: there are no civil society representatives, not in the list of speakers) #AISummitIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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"Today's AI summit brings together businesses, governments and civil society together" Minister Peter Burke TD

(fact: there are no civil society representatives, not in the list of speakers) #AISummitIE
October 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
DARVO
It's not me, it's YOU
It's your insecurities, not your job, the environment, the tech & documentation debt,, your energy bills and lack of potable water
😡😡😡
#AIPsychosis
#AISlop #LineGoUp #SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Talks about the importance of accelerating tech adoption and ensuring people don't miss out.

Makes analogies with the fear of electricity historically to the fear of technology now.

"Don't let your insecurities hold you back"

"AGI will feel much more like human."

Friar, OpenAI
October 14, 2026 at 1:32 PM
"We are not just talking about AI, we are investing in it.

We are accelerating investment in corporate AI innovation."

Minister Burke #AISummitIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:13 AM
We can regulate ourselves and find nothing wrong
#AIPsychosis
#AISlop #LineGoUp #SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
"Industry self-regulation is a good step." Brad Smith, Microsoft
October 14, 2026 at 1:34 PM
My department is leading initiatives to ensure effective AI adoption for higher productivity, sustained growth, and ways we can harness AI to achieve them"

Minister Burke #AISummitIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:16 AM
"The businesses are crying for AI transformation but what will win at the end of the day is trustworthy AI." Niall Twomey, Fenergo

#AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Really? You 'need a PR campaign for tech?'
This #AISlop and #DataCenters are being forced in us, in every area of our lives.
I'm sure you mean propaganda, to undermine human rights, environmental laws, GDPR and sovereign nations
#LineGoUp #SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
"We need a PR campaign for tech. We have to be more ruthless about prioritising AI in Europe. We have to be stronger about our priorities in Europe. We need to make Europe a place where investment funds are welcome. " Jarek Kutylowski, DeepL

#AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
"Thanks to AI agents, your Christmas shopping is about to get a lot easier" Eileen O’Mara, Stripe ##AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:21 AM
"We have huge amount of AI companies that we are supporting and what we are seeing that AI companies are going faster than any other industry. We are seeing a surgence of entrepreneurs. This is exciting. This is an opportunity for everyone to drive productivity" Eileen O’Mara, Stripe ##AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Dismal.
Mortifying
Stealing culture and human creativity like all techbro goons
Hope Seamus Heaney's family sue for this misrepresentation!
#UpTheWorkers Remember, today is the day of the #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Virkkunen ends her speech, mostly about how the EU will be an “AI Continent” with a reference to Sean’s Heaney’s Digging, saying every generation has its instrument - and maybe our pen / shovel is AI

Our culture is really being mined here today

Her speech ends and she and An Taoiseach flee
October 14, 2026 at 8:06 PM
No, it's Machine Learning that is useful to scientists -conflating it with AI means people equate ML with #LLM #GenAI and #AIslop
It's PR shilling talk, they are not the same
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
"There are huge potentials for AI in biology.

We are using AI to understand the fundamentals of biology.

We use AI not only because of speed (discusses how tasks that'd have taken days now take hours) but AI also enables discovery."

Nora Khaldi, Nuritas #AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
OpenAI: Files leaked by employee also include manufacturing data about devices - OpenAI brief in Apple vs OpenAI lawsuit $AAPL
October 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
"We consider ourselves to be the silicon valley of Europe.

We have established a gateway between Europe and US.

It's not time to slow down or stop. It is time to accelerate AI"

Minister James Lawless TD (Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science)

#AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 12:33 PM
"We can create more sustainable foods with AI.

There are many problems in the food system that would have been unsolveable before but now we can tackle them with AI" Edmond Scanlon CEO, Kerry Group #AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:56 AM
"We need a PR campaign for tech. We have to be more ruthless about prioritising AI in Europe. We have to be stronger about our priorities in Europe. We need to make Europe a place where investment funds are welcome. " Jarek Kutylowski, DeepL

#AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:34 AM
More talks about AI agents, sandboxes and investment funds stats from the panel

"Safe doesn't mean slow" (speaking about frontier models) Guillaume Princen, Anthropic #AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 1:02 PM
"We have an audit committee, sustainable committee, AI committee, the level of IP we have developed over the past decade is high. We protect that IP. At the same time we leverage AI to achieve our goals" Edmond Scanlon CEO, Kerry Group when asked about trust in AI systems

#AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:58 AM
"Ireland is a phenomenal place to develop and grow.

We know that Europe is lagging in AI and innovation and we need to make sure we are not behind" O'Mara, Stripe #AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:24 AM
The speaker from Meta who was meant to speak about infrastructure for artificial intelligence at the #AISummitIE was a no show.
October 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
"All task based work will disappear.

All knowledge work is being transformed (e.g., writing code). The important thing is to focus on the type of things that humans are good at like creativity and use those insights." Eoin Hinchy, Tines #AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
"we are dealing with big challenges in the food eco-system that we wouldn't be able to solve it unless we use AI" Edmond Scanlon CEO, Kerry Group #AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:52 AM
"it's harder to build and scale a company in Europe compared to the US. We have a lot of work to do in Europe"

O'Mara #AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Artists and Scientists it's your fault if #GenAI runs out of creative & scientific material to gobble-now you've got to do the actual work, because we need "insights" goddamnit (also, you've to clean up the #TechDebt, errors, humanwash documentation & prevent #AIDrift) #IoT #SpéirGhorm #AISummitIE
Google’s Demis Hassabis

“Our AI systems are good at solving problems, but it’s up to the scientists and artists to pose the questions”
October 14, 2026 at 3:13 PM
"We have seen over the past few months huge self-improvement of frontier AI and a series of incidents. Self regulation is not enough. We are calling for binding comments. (a bit short of saying regulation)
Guillaume Princen, Anthropic #AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 12:53 PM