AI Ireland
Ireland has reached a significant milestone in its AI journey. The AI Office of Ireland (Oifig IS na hÉireann) has officially been established under the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act 2026, with Paul Byrne appointed as its first Chief Executive Officer. The new Office will become the central coordinating authority responsible for implementing the EU […]
Small Language Models (SLMs) cut AI costs by 80% while improving accuracy and compliance. Learn why enterprises are abandoning massive cloud models for specialised, localised AI. For years, the enterprise AI playbook rewarded only one metric: size. Companies raced to connect operations to massive, resource-heavy public cloud models, assuming bigger automatically meant better business value. […]
Welcome to episode 240 of the AI Ireland podcast, the show that explores the applications and research of Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence on the island of Ireland. Our mission is to increase the use of AI for the benefit of our society, our competitiveness and everyone living in Ireland. Today’s guest is […]
Artificial intelligence is no longer managed quietly in IT departments. It’s a board-level strategic priority with immediate regulatory, financial and reputational consequences. However, many organisations still handle AI oversight by adding it to an already-overloaded audit or risk committee. Discussing AI for fifteen minutes per quarter means your board is governing blind, missing both critical […]
Before your board signs off the next AI budget, get the plan independently reviewed, the same way you would never accept unaudited accounts. Every board understands this principle for the numbers. Management prepares the accounts and an independent auditor checks them. Nobody calls that mistrus, it is simply good governance. Yet most boards approve AI […]
Most companies now have AI pilots, but very few have AI in production. That gap is where advantage is won or lost. If your AI never leaves the lab, it never earns money and it never builds a moat. The decision for the CEO is simple to state and hard to do: stop counting pilots […]