{"id":192504,"date":"2026-03-03T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/state-governments-are-starting-to-pursue-agentic-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:20:10","slug":"state-governments-are-starting-to-pursue-agentic-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/state-governments-are-starting-to-pursue-agentic-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"State governments are starting to pursue agentic AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/state-government-agentic-ai-nascio-2026\/\">State governments are starting to pursue agentic AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/state-government-agentic-ai-nascio-2026\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/state-government-agentic-ai-nascio-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-03 18:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers highlights a potential increase in the use of agentic AI in state governments.<\/li>\n<li>While agentic AI, which allows digital agents to automate multistep tasks without human approval, is still rare, the report suggests a gradual rise in its adoption.<\/li>\n<li>The author of the report, Amy Glasscock, mentions that although this shift won&#8217;t happen fast, some states are already beginning to implement agentic AI within their operations.<\/li>\n<li>Several efforts in Alaska and former Virginia have been highlighted as early uses of agentic AI, focusing on automating low-risk tasks.<\/li>\n<li>The report outlines five phases of AI maturity that states might go through, from assistive AI to AI that initiates work without direct human intervention.<\/li>\n<li>Barriers to broader adoption include outdated computer systems and the risk-averse nature of state governments.<\/li>\n<li>Glasscock predicts that in the near future, states will likely discuss and experiment with small, low-risk uses of agentic AI, although fully autonomous AI capabilities integrated state-wide are still some way off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State governments are starting to pursue agentic AI https:\/\/statescoop.com\/state-government-agentic-ai-nascio-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-03 18:05:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2230799008.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192504"}],"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=192504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192506,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192504\/revisions\/192506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}