Pleased to announce that we started 2026 by formally signing up to the Irish Government's Charter on #DigitalInclusion. It wasn't that hard to do and doesn't require us to do anything beyond our core mission to ensure that people are empowered to effectively use data and technology as tools.

This was a nice thing to see over Christmas - people planning to travel to #Wexford from quite a way away to attend our #DataLeaderSummit in March. Some additional international industry 'names' will be there as well - details to be announced over the coming weeks.

This is an interesting read for many reasons (I’m a history nerd and a student of strategic management) www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b... Expect to see it featuring in a future blog post or podcast. Because there’s resonance with many things I’m working on.

@castlebridge-chief.bsky.social has a new Insight where he discusses how the Oireachtas Committee Interim Report on AI echoes themes from our #DataLeaderSummit and the National Data Governance Roadmap we contributed to. castlebridge.ie/insights/loo... Interesting times ahead in 2026.

An interesting thread on the impact of lobbying and where power lies in Ireland. That picture, that's us. Our beautiful lake, polluted. Despite all of the concrete decades-long evidence to suggest the derogation should not be extended so we can begin to restore water quality, here we are.

OpenAI warns new models pose 'high' cybersecurity risk www.reuters.com/business/ope...

🫧 What if the AI “bubble” doesn’t pop… but just wobbles? 🫧 That wobble might be the most useful moment yet. Tech cycles always leave something valuable for those who pay attention. 💡Read Daragh's latest blog to explore what the wobble means - castlebridge.ie/insights/whe...

At some point, the Govt has to learn that the way to keep people safe from information they might encounter isn't to prevent them ever encountering it, but to teach them how to deal with it, or how to choose to avoid it for themselves. 4/n

Our 2026 #DataLeaders Summit will take place in #Wexford on the 18th and 19th of March. Tickets will go on sale next month as we finalize some details in the background. See dataleadersummit.ie for details and to register interest so you can be kept up to date on the event.

Please watch "For All Mankind" on AppleTV so that it gets 10 seasons and a movie.

I think it was under-reported (ie, not reported) that we came within a hair’s breadth of implementing a complete EU surveillance state *and* undermining the security of all messaging encryption on the 12th Dec last year. Ireland was backing Hungary’s plan to do it. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-b...

Latest Insights post by @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social looks at #DataStrategy, #ClimateAction and the implications of a recent High Court decision for Irish public sector #DataLeaders castlebridge.ie/insights/the...

Latest Insights post by @castlebridgechief.bsky.social looks at #DataStrategy, #ClimateAction and the implications of a recent High Court decision for Irish public sector #DataLeaders castlebridge.ie/insights/the...

If this occurs there is a significant risk to the DPF for cross border transfers.

Our #DataLeaders Summit is coming back to #Wexford in March! Join us for a focussed discussion on four strategic data topics for leaders in organisations. Spaces are limited and early bird discounts expire soon! https://buff.ly/40HhQNR #DataStrategy #DataGovernance #DataLiteracy #DataLeader

This is a really good summary of an English case about what is, ultimately, a story about critical data, security, and appropriate care and attention to said critical data.

@irishtimes.bsky.social reports today that Irish Leaving Cert (terminal high school exams) have been cleared by the Dept of Education to use AI tools in exam research projects. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ... 1/n

@castlebridgechief.bsky.social’s column on #TDAN is out today tdan.com/data-is-risk... #DataGovernance #DataManagement

Oz goes towards EU not US AI governance path…

this is a green flag for openai & meta to formally be arbitrators of our languages & mass exploit the population (& researcher that've poured their souls into low resource languages),all to throw unreliable AI that has so far proven to result in more harm than benefit www.reuters.com/technology/a...

UK use of #AI decision bot highlights risk of “human in loop” if humans take outputs at face value. Also highlights the spectrum of things that fall under marketing label of “AI” ‘AI’ tool could influence Home Office immigration decisions, critics say www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Today in my #techethics class we discuss moral status, robot rights, and the Star Trek NG episode, “The Measure of a Man”. I think the episode still holds up pretty well! m.imdb.com/title/tt0708... #aiethics #philosophy

compliance diverged: When principals intended agents to cheat to the fullest extent, the majority of human agents did not comply, despite incentives to do so. In contrast, GPT4 nearly fully complied." #aiEthics #ExperimentalEcon #EconSky orig … 2/3