{"id":585241,"date":"2026-08-06T19:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585241\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:08:50","slug":"fergus-finlay-a-tentative-dip-into-ai-has-scared-the-life-out-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585241\/","title":{"rendered":"Fergus Finlay: A tentative dip into AI has scared the life out of me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">I have to start with a confession. I wanted information about artificial intelligence (AI) and it seemed to me appropriate in the circumstances to ask AI itself some questions, through one of the large language models available online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Generally speaking I\u2019d regard it as a bit unethical to use AI for material for a column. But I hope you\u2019ll forgive me, especially since everything it told me has frightened the life out of me.<\/p>\n<p> This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786043330_470_clubber irishexaminer_0.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t    \tEvery Match. Every Story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">One Ultimate Bundle<\/p>\n<p> No obligation. Ts&amp;Cs apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have to start with a confession. I wanted information about artificial intelligence (AI) and it seemed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,2334,219,91311,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-585241","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-fergus-finlay","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585241","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=585241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}