{"id":211247,"date":"2026-05-08T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/penn-state-hires-ai-focused-provost-to-lead-ethical-strategy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:45:11","slug":"penn-state-hires-ai-focused-provost-to-lead-ethical-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/penn-state-hires-ai-focused-provost-to-lead-ethical-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State hires AI-focused provost to lead ethical strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/penn-state-hires-ai-focused-provost-ethical-strategy\/71256139\">Penn State hires AI-focused provost to lead ethical strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/penn-state-hires-ai-focused-provost-ethical-strategy\/71256139\">https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/penn-state-hires-ai-focused-provost-ethical-strategy\/71256139<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 18:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wgal.com\">www.wgal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Penn State is hiring AI-focused Provost Vasant Honavar to lead the university&#8217;s ethical AI strategy.<\/li>\n<li>Honavar will oversee AI initiatives in teaching, research, and university operations, emphasizing ethical, human-centered use of AI.<\/li>\n<li>This move aligns with Penn State\u2019s ongoing expansion in AI education, literacy, and faculty hiring.<\/li>\n<li>The role of a provost involves senior administrative leadership, focusing on specific areas like artificial intelligence, rather than traditional classroom teaching roles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State hires AI-focused provost to lead ethical strategy https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/penn-state-hires-ai-focused-provost-ethical-strategy\/71256139 Publish Date: 2026-05-08 18:24:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/htv-prod\/ibmig\/cms\/image\/wgal\/7620354-7620354.jpg?crop=1.00xw:0.753xh;0,0.0260xh&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211247","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\/211247"}],"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=211247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211249,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211247\/revisions\/211249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}