{"id":197104,"date":"2026-03-18T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/banning-woke-ai-in-idaho\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:50:12","slug":"banning-woke-ai-in-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/banning-woke-ai-in-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning &#8216;woke&#8217; AI in Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/radio\/banning-woke-ai-in-idaho\/\">Banning &#8216;woke&#8217; AI in Idaho<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/radio\/banning-woke-ai-in-idaho\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/radio\/banning-woke-ai-in-idaho\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-18 15:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Idaho&#8217;s House Bill 687 proposes a unique legislative ban on state agencies using AI systems that promote diversity, equity, or inclusion, requiring ideological neutrality and &#8220;truth-seeking&#8221; in outputs.<\/li>\n<li>Similar language to a previous executive order by former President Donald Trump is used in the legislation.<\/li>\n<li>Quinn Anex-Ries from the Center for Democracy and Technology argues on the Priorities Podcast that achieving ideological neutrality in AI is impractical and could harm state operations.<\/li>\n<li>Minnesota appointed Jon Eichten as its new statewide chief information officer.<\/li>\n<li>Texas has appointed Tony Sauerhoff as the new statewide CIO, most recently serving as chief artificial intelligence and innovation officer.<\/li>\n<li>Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs unveiled a plan to save up to $100 million over three years without cutting essential services, as detailed in her State of the State address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banning &#8216;woke&#8217; AI in Idaho https:\/\/statescoop.com\/radio\/banning-woke-ai-in-idaho\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-18 15:05:00 Source Domain: statescoop.com Idaho&#8217;s House&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-43.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-197104","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\/197104"}],"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=197104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197106,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197104\/revisions\/197106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}