Deploys a mental-health chatbot, in Ireland

Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 (No. 41 of 2022); Online Safety Code (Coimisiun na Mean, October 2024)

• If you operate a video-sharing platform or other online service designated under the Online Safety Code, include in your terms and conditions measures protecting children and the public from harmful content.
• If you operate a video-sharing platform or other online service designated under the Online Safety Code, assess and mitigate the risks posed by your content-delivery and recommendation mechanisms.
• Do not rely on simple self-declaration for age verification.

Digital Services Act 2024 (No. 2 of 2024), giving effect to Regulation (EU) 2022/2065; Coimisiun na Mean as lead national authority

• Conduct an annual systemic-risk assessment of your algorithmic recommendation, content-moderation, and advertising systems if you operate a very large online platform or very large online search engine.
• Implement risk-mitigation measures for those systems if you operate a very large online platform or very large online search engine.
• Offer users at least one recommendation-system option not based on profiling if you operate a very large online platform.
• Disclose your recommendation-system parameters to users if you operate a very large online platform.

Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act 2026 (No. 31 of 2026) · Read the law's page

• Comply with information requests, contravention notices and prohibition notices issued by an authorised officer of a relevant market surveillance authority in respect of an AI system you provide or deploy (Part 5).
• Do not knowingly give false or misleading information to an adjudicator, or disclose confidential material relevant to an adjudicator's finding without authorisation (ss. 95, 104).

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Arts. 5, 50 — directly applicable in Ireland as EU Member State

• Do not place on the market, put into service, or use an AI system for social scoring.
• Do not use real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement purposes.when it serves a public body
• Do not place on the market, put into service, or use an AI system that exploits individuals' vulnerabilities.
• Tell users they are interacting with an AI system before the interaction begins.
• Mark generative AI outputs in machine-readable form as artificially generated.

Artificial Intelligence Companion Services (Protection of Children) Bill 2026 (Bill 93 of 2026) · Read the law's page

• A provider that makes an AI chatbot available within the State must not make an AI companion service or an intimate AI service available to a child, meaning a person under the age of 16.
• Do not advertise, promote, recommend or otherwise direct an AI companion service or an intimate AI service towards a child, and do not use profiling, recommender systems or behavioural advertising techniques to promote a prohibited service to a child.
• Take appropriate and proportionate measures to determine whether a user is a child; requiring a user to self-declare age is not enough on its own.
• Ensure that a child is prevented from accessing a prohibited service, and carry out age-assurance measures consistently with the Data Protection Act 2018 and Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
• Ensure that an AI chatbot clearly identifies itself as an artificial intelligence system, in a manner that is clear, prominent and comprehensible to users.
• Do not design, develop or operate an AI companion service so that it falsely represents that the system is a natural person, possesses consciousness, possesses legal personality or experiences human emotions.
• Comply with an information notice within the period it specifies, and with a direction that Coimisiún na Meán issues to cease making a service available to children, implement specified age-assurance measures or remove a specified chatbot persona.