{"id":218328,"date":"2026-05-21T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/uw-madison-designates-2026-as-the-year-of-ai-readiness-and-competency-uw-madison-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:05:09","slug":"uw-madison-designates-2026-as-the-year-of-ai-readiness-and-competency-uw-madison-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/uw-madison-designates-2026-as-the-year-of-ai-readiness-and-competency-uw-madison-news\/","title":{"rendered":"UW\u2013Madison designates 2026 as the \u2018Year of AI Readiness and Competency\u2019 \u2013 UW\u2013Madison News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/uw-madison-designates-2026-as-the-year-of-ai-readiness-and-competency\/\">UW\u2013Madison designates 2026 as the \u2018Year of AI Readiness and Competency\u2019 \u2013 UW\u2013Madison News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/uw-madison-designates-2026-as-the-year-of-ai-readiness-and-competency\/\">https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/uw-madison-designates-2026-as-the-year-of-ai-readiness-and-competency\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 18:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.wisc.edu\">news.wisc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison will designate 2026 as its \u201cYear of AI Readiness and Competency\u201d to prepare students, faculty, and staff to use artificial intelligence thoughtfully and responsibly.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative stems from the AI-focus area in the university\u2019s RISE-AI program and aligns with the university\u2019s five-year strategic framework.<\/li>\n<li>The University aims for a \u201cpeople first\u201d approach that emphasizes recognizing appropriate use, necessary skills, and flexibility in AI adaptation rather than solely focusing on technology.<\/li>\n<li>The AI Readiness and Competency Working Group, co-chaired by Didier Contis and Kristin Eschenfelder, has been established to develop a framework for AI use across the campus.<\/li>\n<li>Guiding principles include AI augmenting human capacity, deliberate decision-making, and campus-level coordination with local flexibility.<\/li>\n<li>The group will work on providing clear AI guidelines, reviewing existing university policies, coordinating AI literacy resources, and providing short and long-term governance recommendations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW\u2013Madison designates 2026 as the \u2018Year of AI Readiness and Competency\u2019 \u2013 UW\u2013Madison News https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/uw-madison-designates-2026-as-the-year-of-ai-readiness-and-competency\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/First-day-of-class-2025-09-03TW-6936-1200x630.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218328","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\/218328"}],"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=218328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218330,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218328\/revisions\/218330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}