{"id":206459,"date":"2026-04-27T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/alabama-names-states-first-chief-ai-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:00:14","slug":"alabama-names-states-first-chief-ai-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/alabama-names-states-first-chief-ai-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama names state&#8217;s first chief AI officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/alabama-chief-ai-officer-aaron-wright\/\">Alabama names state&#8217;s first chief AI officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/alabama-chief-ai-officer-aaron-wright\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/alabama-chief-ai-officer-aaron-wright\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-27 16:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alabama has appointed Aaron Wright as its first Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO).<\/li>\n<li>Wright, previously the director of application development, now oversees AI initiatives for the state.<\/li>\n<li>The appointment follows an executive order from two years ago by Gov. Kay Ivey to create a generative AI task force.<\/li>\n<li>The task force aimed to explore AI use across state agencies and make recommendations on policies and future AI applications.<\/li>\n<li>A report from last year from the task force found that nearly a quarter of Alabama agencies were utilizing generative AI for various applications.<\/li>\n<li>Wright has over four years of experience in his current role and nearly 30 years of IT experience overall.<\/li>\n<li>His background includes leadership in the task force\u2019s working group on data management and ownership.<\/li>\n<li>Wright has held various roles in the Alabama Office of Information Technology, the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, and in the healthcare industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama names state&#8217;s first chief AI officer https:\/\/statescoop.com\/alabama-chief-ai-officer-aaron-wright\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-27 16:48:00 Source Domain: statescoop.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/06\/GettyImages-868595278.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-206459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206459"}],"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=206459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206461,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206459\/revisions\/206461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}