{"id":195161,"date":"2026-03-12T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/uri-professors-aiding-states-push-to-become-national-leader-in-artificial-intelligence-rhody-today\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:05:10","slug":"uri-professors-aiding-states-push-to-become-national-leader-in-artificial-intelligence-rhody-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/uri-professors-aiding-states-push-to-become-national-leader-in-artificial-intelligence-rhody-today\/","title":{"rendered":"URI professors aiding state\u2019s push to become national leader in artificial intelligence \u2013 Rhody Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/uri-professors-aiding-states-push-to-become-national-leader-in-artificial-intelligence\/\">URI professors aiding state\u2019s push to become national leader in artificial intelligence \u2013 Rhody Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/uri-professors-aiding-states-push-to-become-national-leader-in-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/uri-professors-aiding-states-push-to-become-national-leader-in-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-12 09:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.uri.edu\">www.uri.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The Rhode Island Artificial Intelligence Task Force has unveiled a blueprint to make Rhode Island a national leader in AI through collaboration between government and private industry.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The task force, which includes University of Rhode Island (URI) faculty members, presented their 75-page report to the Rhode Island Senate Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies.  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The report reviewed AI&#8217;s application across six local sectors: education, defense industries\/maritime technologies, finance, health, government, and small businesses\/startups\/nonprofits, providing steps to boost the local economy while mitigating risks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>URI aims to lead in AI adoption for Rhode Island, focusing on AI workforce development, through initiatives like creating AI accreditation programs, fostering public AI awareness, and launching interdisciplinary research.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The task force stressed the importance of collaboration between educational institutions and the business community to enhance AI-related training and workforce skills.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>They proposed &#8220;AI for Rhode Island,&#8221; a hub to support local businesses, offer expert services, and provide learning resources, acting as an extension of URI&#8217;s community mission.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URI professors aiding state\u2019s push to become national leader in artificial intelligence \u2013 Rhody Today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2026\/03\/iStock-AI.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-195161","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\/195161"}],"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=195161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195163,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195161\/revisions\/195163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}