{"id":193287,"date":"2026-03-06T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/advocacy-group-raises-concern-about-ai-in-federal-student-aid\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:50:14","slug":"advocacy-group-raises-concern-about-ai-in-federal-student-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/advocacy-group-raises-concern-about-ai-in-federal-student-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy Group Raises Concern About AI in Federal Student Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/quick-takes\/2026\/03\/06\/advocacy-group-raises-concern-about-ai-federal-student-aid\">Advocacy Group Raises Concern About AI in Federal Student Aid<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/quick-takes\/2026\/03\/06\/advocacy-group-raises-concern-about-ai-federal-student-aid\">https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/quick-takes\/2026\/03\/06\/advocacy-group-raises-concern-about-ai-federal-student-aid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 03:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.insidehighered.com\">www.insidehighered.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Trump administration is prioritizing increased use of AI within the federal government.<\/li>\n<li>Legal advocacy group Student Defense is investigating the use of AI in federal student aid through public records requests.<\/li>\n<li>Student Defense is concerned about the lack of safeguards and oversight for AI work, which could pose a threat to student data privacy.<\/li>\n<li>The group&#8217;s investigation will use Freedom of Information Act litigation and plans to launch a tip line for government staff and contractors.<\/li>\n<li>In April 2025, the White House budget office mandated agencies to accelerate AI integration despite privacy concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Student Defense has submitted 12 FOIA requests to understand how AI is used for student inquiries, new regulations, and veteran education benefits, and explore AI company contracts.<\/li>\n<li>The aim is to reveal whether student data is being shared with external AI companies and if proper training has been provided to staff using AI.<\/li>\n<li>Student Defense&#8217;s president emphasizes the importance of transparency in AI outsourcing and data protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy Group Raises Concern About AI in Federal Student Aid https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/quick-takes\/2026\/03\/06\/advocacy-group-raises-concern-about-ai-federal-student-aid Publish Date: 2026-03-06 03:03:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/2024-05\/GettyImages-1488400461b.jpg?itok=6vbg28IL","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193287","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\/193287"}],"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=193287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193289,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193287\/revisions\/193289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}