{"id":201820,"date":"2026-04-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/n-s-launching-5-person-team-to-help-government-staff-incorporate-ai-into-their-work\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:35:11","slug":"n-s-launching-5-person-team-to-help-government-staff-incorporate-ai-into-their-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/n-s-launching-5-person-team-to-help-government-staff-incorporate-ai-into-their-work\/","title":{"rendered":"N.S. launching 5-person team to help government staff incorporate AI into their work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/nova-scotia-artificial-intelligence-9.7148369\">N.S. launching 5-person team to help government staff incorporate AI into their work<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/nova-scotia-artificial-intelligence-9.7148369\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/nova-scotia-artificial-intelligence-9.7148369<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-03 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbc.ca\">www.cbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nova Scotia is recruiting a new five-person team to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into provincial government operations, aiming to increase productivity and efficiency.<\/li>\n<li>The team, under the leadership of Jennifer LaPlante, deputy minister of cybersecurity and digital solutions, will establish protocols for AI tool use across all government departments.<\/li>\n<li>The province is currently developing a responsible use policy to determine which AI tools are permissible for workplace use.<\/li>\n<li>Funding for the AI team comes from a province-wide $4.4 million investment in AI capabilities for this fiscal year, including the acquisition of AI software and licensing.<\/li>\n<li>The province emphasizes building comprehensive AI use strategies while balancing innovation with the protection of government systems.<\/li>\n<li>Nova Scotia has identified AI as a significant area of opportunity, alongside other sectors like defence and energy.<\/li>\n<li>The government has launched a free-to-use chatbot named Scottie, powered by AI, to answer questions about government services and help navigate the complex provincial website.<\/li>\n<li>Scottie is designed to provide factual information from existing government sources without generating new content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N.S. launching 5-person team to help government staff incorporate AI into their work https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/nova-scotia-artificial-intelligence-9.7148369 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/1.5037161,1582212843000\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C51%2C1000%2C562%29%3BResize%3D620","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-201820","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\/201820"}],"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=201820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201822,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201820\/revisions\/201822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}