{"id":200996,"date":"2026-03-31T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/industry-looks-to-university-of-tennessee-for-ai-innovation-workforce-development\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:25:17","slug":"industry-looks-to-university-of-tennessee-for-ai-innovation-workforce-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/industry-looks-to-university-of-tennessee-for-ai-innovation-workforce-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry looks to University of Tennessee for AI innovation, workforce development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1122175\">Industry looks to University of Tennessee for AI innovation, workforce development<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1122175\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1122175<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-31 15:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.eurekalert.org\">www.eurekalert.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The inaugural AI Tennessee Summit brought together leaders from government, industry, and academia to discuss AI&#8217;s role in Tennessee.<\/li>\n<li>The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, hosted the summit, along with partnerships including the State of Tennessee AI Advisory Council, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Memphis.<\/li>\n<li>Industry leaders emphasized the importance of human skills and critical thinking in the responsible use of AI alongside its technological capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>UT established the College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies to deliver educational opportunities focused on emerging technologies.<\/li>\n<li>The college offers applied AI degree programs, certificates, and online courses to build AI competency among diverse learners.<\/li>\n<li>UT also formed the AI TechX consortium to connect academic researchers with industry partners to develop AI solutions for real-world problems, boosting economic growth in Tennessee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry looks to University of Tennessee for AI innovation, workforce development https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1122175 Publish Date: 2026-03-31&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mediasvc.eurekalert.org\/Api\/v1\/Multimedia\/26854fd2-6aa8-4cbf-ad6f-5a2de995b6d8\/Rendition\/thumbnail\/Content\/Public","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200996","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\/200996"}],"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=200996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200998,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200996\/revisions\/200998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}