{"id":185469,"date":"2026-02-08T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/are-irish-companies-artificial-intelligence-sceptics-the-irish-times\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:30:10","slug":"are-irish-companies-artificial-intelligence-sceptics-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/are-irish-companies-artificial-intelligence-sceptics-the-irish-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Irish companies artificial intelligence sceptics? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/02\/08\/are-irish-companies-artificial-intelligence-sceptics\/\">Are Irish companies artificial intelligence sceptics? \u2013 The Irish Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/02\/08\/are-irish-companies-artificial-intelligence-sceptics\/\">https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/02\/08\/are-irish-companies-artificial-intelligence-sceptics\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-08 00:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.irishtimes.com\">www.irishtimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 20% of Irish enterprises reported using AI in 2025, showing a modest increase from 15% the previous year.<\/li>\n<li>Data mining was the most prevalent use of AI, followed closely by natural language generation, with workflow automation and decision-making assistance being less common.<\/li>\n<li>AI adoption was significantly higher in large enterprises (58%) compared to small companies (17%).<\/li>\n<li>Contrary to expectations, small businesses didn&#8217;t lead in adopting AI, despite potential resource constraints.<\/li>\n<li>A PwC survey supports the CSO findings, indicating low daily use of generative AI (10% in Ireland and 14% globally) and low usage of AI agents (3% in Ireland and 6% globally).<\/li>\n<li>Overall AI usage suggests that despite increasing adoption, significant hurdles remain in widespread implementation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Irish companies artificial intelligence sceptics? \u2013 The Irish Times https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/02\/08\/are-irish-companies-artificial-intelligence-sceptics\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-08 00:07:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/resizer\/v2\/ERMS6BU4BNGK3LEV6XS5HSWZCU.jpg?smart=true&auth=434b413dc31f616ac13804104dae139dd8bcc3c48047556ff291253d7a8de95f&width=1200&height=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-185469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185471,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185469\/revisions\/185471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}