IrelandPublic sector2026 – ongoingCork City Council
Lord Mayor's ChatGPT-assisted speechwriting
Cork's Lord Mayor used ChatGPT to help draft speeches and edited the results himself
Problem
Lord Mayor Fergal Dennehy said writing speeches had previously taken hours.
Approach
Dennehy described recurring use of ChatGPT to help prepare speeches. He changed output he was uncomfortable with and edited the wording to retain his personal voice. This was an account of his own working practice, rather than a measured council-wide deployment.
Results
No published figures
Takeaway
The drafting task became faster by the mayor's account, while he retained responsibility for the wording. No measured time-saving study was disclosed.
Categories
- Industry
- Public sector
- Business function
- Internal work and knowledge management
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Off-the-shelf tool or platform
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Dennehy told the newspaper that he increasingly used AI for speechwriting and reviewed its output himself. He described drafting in seconds where work had previously taken hours, without providing a formal measurement.
Full details are in the original sources.
