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Barry O'Brien
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Chair of Business at OECD AI Steering Group
Description
Barry is Chair of the AI Steering Group at Business at OECD and is nominated to represent business in the GPAI Steering Group for 2025. He has been active in various OECD working groups on AI, including the group that drafted the OECD’s 2019 AI Recommendation and Principles, and co-chaired the OECD Working Group on Trustworthy AI for two years.
He represented IBM at the Council of Europe’s Committee on AI during development of the Council’s Convention on AI, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, adopted in 2024.
Barry is a Government and Regulatory Affairs executive with IBM, representing the company on a range of policy issues, with a particular focus on AI. He is a member of the Irish Government’s Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum.
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