Debate contribution: Artificial Intelligence: Strategy
Debate contribution by Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly on .
- MLA
- Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 11 May 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Artificial Intelligence: Strategy
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5523835
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It is an area that requires significant investment and will do so in the years ahead. However, there is also an important balance to be achieved between having a stand-alone unit that will drive some of that progress and monitor the implementation and, on the other side, recognising the importance of AI being mainstreamed in Departments and agencies as business as usual. From speaking to and engaging with the CSTA, I think that her strong view is that it needs a dedicated resource to get it going and to continue to drive it forward, but, ultimately, success will be AI being mainstreamed in each Department and considered not as something exceptional sitting in a central unit but as something that is very much business as usual in every Department every day.
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