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AI Policy Monitor

How higher ed is governing AI in Ireland.

Published AI policies across Ireland higher education, classified by stance, maturity, and audience. 20 institutions tracked. Updated Apr 19, 2026.

20 Institutions monitored
25% Have a verified AI policy
9 Policies classified
Conditional Most common stance

When campuses first put AI policy on paper

First-adoption year for 4 dated policies.

What posture do policies take?

5 classified policies, by stance.

Conditional: 4 (80%) Prohibitive: 1 (20%) Permissive: 0 (0%) Encouraged: 0 (0%) Unclear: 0 (0%) 80% Conditional
  • Conditional 80%
  • Prohibitive 20%
  • Permissive 0%
  • Encouraged 0%
  • Unclear 0%

Who has a policy, by institution type

Share of each type with a verified AI policy.

University 25%

Which AI tools do policies actually name?

Number of institutions that name each tool.

ChatGPT / OpenAI 4
Gemini / Google 3
Copilot 2
Midjourney 2
Stable Diffusion 1
Llama / Meta 1
Perplexity 1

How far along is the sector?

All 20 monitored institutions, by policy maturity.

  • Comprehensive 2
  • Developing 9
  • Minimal 8
  • No policy yet 1

What the stances mean: Conditional — allowed with guardrails · Prohibitive — restricted or banned · Permissive — broadly allowed · Encouraged — actively promoted · Unclear — no clear position

Method: institutions are drawn from public directories, AI policy pages discovered via search, verified by crawl, and archived in monthly snapshots. Snapshots are classified by an LLM on a locked rubric. Smaller systems show fewer data points. Percentages use classified policies as the denominator unless noted.

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