Niamh Smyth on AI value alignment must be subject to p…

Niamh Smyth

Irish Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation.

As we come together to meet these collective challenges, we need to ensure that the voices of all society can contribute to the solutions. [...] This dialogue can facilitate much-needed efforts towards shared governance language incorporating transparency, accountability, and oversight, and it can advance multi-stakeholder cooperation towards safe and equitable access to AI technologies.

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Niamh Smyth, remarks at Closing Sessions - Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance - Day 2, UN Transcripts, July 7, 2026.

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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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AI Verified The quote’s call for all voices, transparency, accountability, and multi-stakeholder cooperation directly bears on public deliberation over AI value alignment. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4-mini · 2mo ago

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The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth

The governance of artificial intelligence cannot be addressed by any single nation alone. The systems being developed today at rapid pace are shaping access to information, influencing economic opportunity, and affecting fundamental rights.

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Ban fully automated hiring decisions without human review

The deployment of AI online content moderation without human oversight can amplify disinformation, undermining the integrity of the information landscape, and this disproportionately affects women and girls.

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Ban AI impersonation of real individuals without their consent

In my own Department, we are liaising with the European Commission and member states to advocate for adding the use of AI systems for the generation of such images to the list of prohibited AI practices under the EU AI Act.

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