{"id":449023,"date":"2026-05-14T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449023\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:00:09","slug":"adrian-weckler-with-ireland-becoming-europes-ai-hub-proper-resourcing-of-regulators-has-entered-pivotal-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449023\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: With Ireland becoming Europe\u2019s AI hub, proper resourcing of regulators has entered \u2018pivotal\u2019 stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers will have to properly staff the regulators. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages_2271188710.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)\">Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers will have to properly staff the regulators. Photo: 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)\">Ireland\u2019s top regulators have warned that the country could face a decade of shame and regret in underpolicing AI giants\u2019 excesses if the Government decides to cut back on hiring at the Data Protection Commission (DPC) and Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n.<\/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)\">DPC Commissioner Dale Sutherland and Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n Commissioner John Evans both told a conference that \u201cresourcing\u201d is now entering a pivotal stage, as Ireland becomes the AI tech hub of Europe \u2013 housing the headquarters of all the main AI giants, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft and X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers will have to properly staff the regulators. Photo: PA Ireland\u2019s top regulators have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8819,823,138528,61,542,60,13808,1226,43,4269,251,6116,19247],"class_list":["post-449023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-facebook","tag-gdpr","tag-ie","tag-instagram","tag-ireland","tag-jack-chambers","tag-meta","tag-news","tag-regulation","tag-technology-news","tag-tiktok","tag-x-formerly-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449023","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=449023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}