Government Fast-Tracks Law to Fine Tech Giants for AI Abuse - 14/01/2026

Ministers are to rush through laws that will allow companies misusing artificial intelligence to be hit with massive fines.The law will set out eight harmful uses of AI that contravene common values because they violate fundamental rights.It is not clear whether they will specifically address the “nudification” issues that have caused a furore over Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot, although amendments can be made.It could mean fines running into the tens of thousands or millions of euro for large platforms found to be in breach.The new law will grade each type of AI use by risk, and include penalties for violations, with fines of up to €35m or 7pc of global annual turnover, whichever is higher, depending on the violation.We were joined on The Agenda this morning by Barry O’Sullivan from the School of Computer Science & IT, and Member of the Irish Government’s AI Advisory Council, whol told us more about this. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.