Irish Times Inside Politics

Harry McGee, Ellen Coyne and Mark Paul join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:·       The Minister with responsibility for artificial intelligence (AI), Niamh Smyth, met with executives from social media company X on Friday over concerns about their Grok app. The app has been in the headlines because of its ability to produce non-consensual intimate images. Current law bans sharing of intimate images but does not appear to criminalise generating them – what is the Government’s next step?·       The level of energy needed to power a data centre was laid bare this week. An internal Government document showed that a single facility in west Dublin consumes 10 times the electricity of a nearby pharmaceutical plant employing 2,000 people, equivalent to enough power for 200,000 homes.·       And more ‘psychodrama’ for the Tories this week as Robert Jenrick, the Conservative shadow justice secretar