{"id":216830,"date":"2026-05-19T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/a-new-body-will-recommend-how-state-government-and-vermont-businesses-could-adopt-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:30:32","slug":"a-new-body-will-recommend-how-state-government-and-vermont-businesses-could-adopt-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/a-new-body-will-recommend-how-state-government-and-vermont-businesses-could-adopt-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"A new body will recommend how state government and Vermont businesses could adopt AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/05\/19\/a-new-body-will-recommend-how-state-government-and-vermont-businesses-could-adopt-ai\/\">A new body will recommend how state government and Vermont businesses could adopt AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/05\/19\/a-new-body-will-recommend-how-state-government-and-vermont-businesses-could-adopt-ai\/\">https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/05\/19\/a-new-body-will-recommend-how-state-government-and-vermont-businesses-could-adopt-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 18:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"vtdigger.org\">vtdigger.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certainly! Here are key points from the article, presented in an unordered list:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Gov. Phil Scott formed the Vermont Artificial Intelligence Economic Taskforce through an executive order to explore AI adoption for state services and economic improvement.<br \/>\n&#8211; The taskforce, chaired by Neale Lunderville, aims to present up to five recommendations to the state government within 90 days on effective AI applications.<br \/>\n&#8211; The taskforce\u2019s priorities include economic acceleration, small business competitiveness, and community resilience.<br \/>\n&#8211; Existing AI tools used by state agencies, such as ChatVT and invoice processing tools, illustrate the ongoing integration of AI in state operations.<br \/>\n&#8211; Debates occurred around Gov. Scott\u2019s veto of a bill forming a &#8220;sister state&#8221; committee on grounds of constitutionality.<br \/>\n&#8211; The legal tussle over Governor Scott&#8217;s return-to-office mandate for state employees continues, with the administration appealing to the Supreme Court.<br \/>\n&#8211; Controversy surrounded comments made by Sen. Steve Heffernan during a Senate discussion on animal cruelty laws, which sparked Senate Democrats\u2019 condemnation.<br \/>\n&#8211; Rep. Ashley Bartley announced her candidacy for the Chittenden-North district Senate seat, focusing on housing expansion and policy reforms.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new body will recommend how state government and Vermont businesses could adopt AI https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/05\/19\/a-new-body-will-recommend-how-state-government-and-vermont-businesses-could-adopt-ai\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP_Chatgpt-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-216830","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\/216830"}],"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=216830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216832,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216830\/revisions\/216832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}