Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly changing workplaces and threatening jobs, but students of AI planning a career in the area are among those facing the most precarious of futures. The UK’s National Foundation for Education Research found last year that the number of tech jobs there had declined by 50 per cent over five years. More than 600 students are on undergraduate and postgraduate AI courses in Ireland including those at Tallaght. Student Imran Bennekrela says CVs are scanned by AI in the recruitment process and there is a “back and forth with AI checking for AI”. Internships are now a key component of courses, developed with employers, that offer students work experience that is otherwise hard to come by.

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2026 06:32 UTC