{"id":176105,"date":"2026-01-09T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/state-employees-receive-hands-on-ai-training\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:15:13","slug":"state-employees-receive-hands-on-ai-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/state-employees-receive-hands-on-ai-training\/","title":{"rendered":"State employees receive hands-on AI training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2026\/01\/09\/state-employees-receive-hands-on-ai-training\/\">State employees receive hands-on AI training<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2026\/01\/09\/state-employees-receive-hands-on-ai-training\/\">https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2026\/01\/09\/state-employees-receive-hands-on-ai-training\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-09 18:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wlbt.com\">www.wlbt.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Training for State Employees<\/strong>: Snowflake is helping train Mississippi state employees to better understand and leverage AI technology, focusing on data collection, sharing, management, authorization, and security aspects.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Formation of the Mississippi Artificial Intelligence Network<\/strong>: The network was established in 2023 to prepare Mississippians for future AI-driven job markets. It brings together higher education, state government, and other institutions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Statewide AI Initiative<\/strong>: The network aims to ensure that everyone in Mississippi, from state agencies to K-12, higher education, and small businesses, has access to the tools needed for AI competitiveness.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Future Competitiveness<\/strong>: Officials anticipate that Mississippi will gain a competitive edge in AI strategically due to investments and partnerships, helping the state remain competitive nationally and globally.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Educational and Workforce Development<\/strong>: The network\u2019s goal is to develop workforce capabilities to meet future AI needs and ensure the state is prepared for the evolving job market.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State employees receive hands-on AI training https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2026\/01\/09\/state-employees-receive-hands-on-ai-training\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-09 18:47:00 Source Domain: www.wlbt.com AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wlbt-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/5GCUXE62ONBUNPYXLH7ZFBAKP4.jpg?auth=2ab16763caae8d3ec69d0c0d942185bd411f026dfc3929303cdcd566457f8fef&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-176105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176105"}],"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=176105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176107,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176105\/revisions\/176107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}