{"id":250771,"date":"2026-01-18T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250771\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:05:15","slug":"schoolchildren-ushered-away-from-dail-public-gallery-ahead-of-graphic-debate-on-ai-and-grok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250771\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolchildren ushered away from D\u00e1il public gallery ahead of graphic debate on AI and Grok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"X has come under fire after its AI chatbot Grok produced sexualised images of women and children. (Yui Mok\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2.82988321.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">X has come under fire after its AI chatbot Grok produced sexualised images of women and children. (Yui Mok\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A party of schoolchildren left the D\u00e1il public gallery today after being warned by the Ceann Comhairle that a debate on artificial intelligence chatbots may not be suitable for young ears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Verona Murphy took the unusual step of addressing the party of 12-year-old boys and girls, telling them: \u201cThis may not be an appropriate debate for you.\u201d Teachers immediately ushered out the youngsters from Gaelscoil an Inbhir Mh\u00f3ir in Arklow, who had been on a tour of Leinster House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"X has come under fire after its AI chatbot Grok produced sexualised images of women and children. (Yui&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,898,80],"class_list":["post-250771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}