{"id":411098,"date":"2026-04-22T03:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411098\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:31:15","slug":"ireland-vulnerable-to-ai-astroturfing-of-political-campaigns-expert-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411098\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland vulnerable to AI \u2018astroturfing\u2019 of political campaigns, expert warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Prof Barry O\u2019Sullivan said it is known Russian \u2018dark vessels\u2019 operating in Irish Sea at time drones trailed Zelensky\u2019s planeOireactas AI committee also told social media companies already have technology to detect users\u2019 ages and should turn off recommender algorithms\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b3da778f-ee39-4bba-9f4e-d5c673a32437.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)\">Stock image: 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)\">An expert on AI has warned that Ireland is vulnerable to the use of AI to \u2018astroturf\u2019 grassroots support for political agendas.<\/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)\">UCC professor Barry O&#8217;Sullivan, who is an expert in AI and the Vice Chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI, said the \u201cpotential and scale\u201d of astroturfing campaigns is \u201csignificant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prof Barry O\u2019Sullivan said it is known Russian \u2018dark vessels\u2019 operating in Irish Sea at time drones trailed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-411098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411098","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=411098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}