{"id":476644,"date":"2026-02-18T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476644\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:36:13","slug":"ai-adoption-already-hitting-irish-graduate-jobs-finance-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476644\/","title":{"rendered":"AI adoption already hitting Irish graduate jobs, finance department says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">DUBLIN, Feb 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Early evidence suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> is weakening employment opportunities in some parts of \u200cIreland&#8217;s technology-focused economy, particularly for young graduates, research \u200cby Ireland&#8217;s finance department found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Ireland&#8217;s strong labour market is relatively more exposed \u200bto AI than the average advanced economy given a high concentration of jobs in so-called knowledge-intensive sectors such as tech, science and financial services, the finance department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Employment in categories \u200cat risk of AI \u2060disruption, which include tech and financial services, grew at around 4% between 2023 and 2025, \u2060compared with 4.5% among medium-risk companies, and 6.25% in the low-risk category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Employment among 15 to 29 year-olds in the &#8220;at risk&#8221; \u200bcohort fell \u200bby 1% over that \u200bperiod and by 20% among \u200ctechnology firms alone, even as employment among tech workers aged 30 to 59 grew 12% during that period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The research also found that in sectors with lower AI exposure, employment growth among younger workers outpaced that of older workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">While \u200cthe researchers said that indicated the \u200bresults cannot be explained by a \u200bdownturn among younger \u200bworkers more broadly, they also said it may \u200cbe premature to attribute the \u200bchanges solely to \u200bAI-driven substitution effects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Finance Minister Simon Harris said the analysis suggests Ireland may be at the frontier of \u200bAI labour market \u200cchanges and that the government must invest in up-skilling \u200band re-skilling workers in exposed sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Padraic \u200bHalpin; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBLIN, Feb 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Early evidence suggests artificial intelligence is weakening employment opportunities in some parts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,55510,2637,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-476644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-finance-department","12":"tag-labour-market","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}