\u201cI think there are big benefits to it,\u201d she says. \u201cIt already seems to be cutting the number of false positives and false negatives around mammograms, diagnosing cancers in general, it is helping us spot them much earlier. There is a lot of potential for it to help diagnose other conditions too \u2013 endometriosis, for example \u2013 at a much earlier stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut AI makes mistakes too and I think people will always want a human involved in reviewing its findings. Or when you go for a scan, you need there to be a human connection too.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are other concerns around ethics and bias but there\u2019s so much research going into AI at the moment I think there will be a lot of improvements and it will play a big part in medicine,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Duke says she would like to get into the area of obstetrics and gynaecology. \u201cWhile I\u2019m sure it will be used in scans, looking at ultrasounds, I think there are aspects of that work in relation to mothers and babies that I just can\u2019t see changing.\u201d<\/p>\n
In its 2024 report titled Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?, the Department of Enterprise<\/a> concluded two-thirds of people working as \u201cprofessionals\u201d would be in highly exposed roles but \u201care the most likely to be able to integrate AI applications into their jobs in a complementary way \u2013 increasing productivity. This is contingent on these workers being equipped with the skills to use AI as a supporting technology.\u201d<\/p>\n To an outsider, accountancy might be regarded as the sort of occupation AI was created to do. Recruitment firm Morgan McKinley<\/a> said last year it was already having an impact on graduate recruitment. A large-scale piece of research by Tufts University in the US suggested 8 per cent of accountants could lose their jobs.<\/p>\n Within the profession, however, there seems to be considerable confidence about the technology, although it varies according to age. A survey by Chartered Accountants Worldwide last year found 80 per cent of accountancy students and the youngest workers in the field believed they would be able to use AI to their advantage, compared with just 47 per cent of over-55s.<\/p>\n Nifemi Roberts, a 27-year-old graduate of UCD who trained with PwC, falls firmly into the first group. Having worked for a little over a year now at Irish fintech Fenergo in Dublin, she says she can feel the impact AI is having on the job, the company and profession and believes it is a positive.<\/p>\n \u201cFour years ago when I started studying accountancy it was barely being talked about but I definitely see its impact now, just in terms of getting rid of things I\u2019d rather not do. When I was at PwC there\u2019d be meetings and it would take me so much time afterwards to summarise them, explain to people what happened. AI is great for things like that – manual, low-value tasks, but still needed tasks,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are a lot of other uses … I might ask it about Revenue regulations and it will summarise them for me. It\u2019s just a tool, a starting point, and you have to remember it\u2019s not always right but it gives you information to build on. There is a big emphasis here on integrating it into our work, and on certain tasks it does save us a lot of time.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Nifemi](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BHE36E4QANGCDDZE5U3VDIAXYU.jpeg\")
Nifemi Roberts <\/p>\n
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