{"id":454640,"date":"2026-05-18T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:33:11","slug":"jenny-maguire-ai-is-rapidly-removing-humanity-from-centre-of-politics-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454640\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Maguire: AI is rapidly removing humanity from centre of politics and society"},"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\">While tech companies and the Government say artificial intelligence is here to stay, we should have more of a say in how it\u2019s used\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Demonstrators take part in a protest march from London offices of OpenAI to Meta HQ and Google DeepMind HQ against the rapid expansion of AI data centres in the UK. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages_2263493696.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)\">Demonstrators take part in a protest march from London offices of OpenAI to Meta HQ and Google DeepMind HQ against the rapid expansion of AI data centres in the UK. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">Nothing says \u201chealthy democracy\u201d quite like a van blaring pop music and covered in posters showing an AI-generated Gerry Hutch.<\/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)\">When I first saw the image of the Independent candidate outside Connolly Station in Dublin, it stopped me in my tracks. It is not every day you\u2019re face-to-face with a \u201cyassified\u201d Hutch after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While tech companies and the Government say artificial intelligence is here to stay, we should have more of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,2334,219,68707,70422,61,60,4829,80,251],"class_list":["post-454640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-by-election","tag-gerry-hutch","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lgbtq","tag-technology","tag-technology-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454640","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=454640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}