New research from AI Ireland shows that 74% of Irish businesses are now actively using artificial intelligence and have moved beyond the experimental phase with the technology.<\/p>\n
The study is based on a survey of 130 senior business leaders.<\/p>\n
A quarter of respondents said they are still piloting AI initiatives, while just 2% said they have yet to start their AI journey.<\/p>\n
The research shows that the number one AI goal for companies for the next 12 months is saving money, followed by making staff more productive.<\/p>\n
Respondents said that the top blocker holding companies back is technical integration with legacy systems.<\/p>\n
According to the survey, 15% of leaders said they simply do not have enough people with the right AI skills.<\/p>\n
More than half of respondents said they only allow AI to be used with company data under strict controlled conditions, reflecting deep concerns around data security.<\/p>\n
“Ireland is at a tipping point, while 74% of businesses have moved AI into production, a ‘readiness gap’ persists, with 25% of leaders citing legacy software as their top blocker,” said Mark Kelly, Founder, AI Ireland.<\/p>\n
“However, ‘agentic’ AI is clearing this hurdle sooner than expected.”<\/p>\n
“By interacting with old systems like a human would, tools like Claude’s ‘computer use’ could bypass costly overhauls,” Mr Kelly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New research from AI Ireland shows that 74% of Irish businesses are now actively using artificial intelligence and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-320743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}