{"id":224756,"date":"2026-06-02T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/marylands-new-ai-innovation-lab-to-help-state-agencies-adopt-experiment-with-tech\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:45:12","slug":"marylands-new-ai-innovation-lab-to-help-state-agencies-adopt-experiment-with-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/marylands-new-ai-innovation-lab-to-help-state-agencies-adopt-experiment-with-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland&#8217;s new AI Innovation Lab to help state agencies adopt, experiment with tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-ai-innovation-lab-state-agencies-adopt-experiment-2026\/\">Maryland&#8217;s new AI Innovation Lab to help state agencies adopt, experiment with tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-ai-innovation-lab-state-agencies-adopt-experiment-2026\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-ai-innovation-lab-state-agencies-adopt-experiment-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 16:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maryland Governor Wes Moore has launched an AI Innovation Lab to help state agencies adopt and experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) technology.<\/li>\n<li>The lab, situated within the Department of Information Technology, will offer a secure sandbox environment, pre-built software packages for rapid development, and a comprehensive tech stack for chatbots.<\/li>\n<li>Key features include AI architecture sessions, the state&#8217;s first AI red-teaming service for security testing, and hands-on training provided by a team of AI-expert state employees.<\/li>\n<li>Led by Pat McLoughlin, the lab aims to support the Governor&#8217;s Modernization Initiative and adhere to Maryland&#8217;s Responsible AI Policy, ensuring responsible AI use.<\/li>\n<li>It will also build on the state\u2019s partnership with Anthropic to address issues like child poverty, housing access, and process streamlining.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Moore emphasized the lab&#8217;s role in making the state government more efficient and in delivering innovative solutions to Maryland residents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland&#8217;s new AI Innovation Lab to help state agencies adopt, experiment with tech https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-ai-innovation-lab-state-agencies-adopt-experiment-2026\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2192272626.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-224756","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\/224756"}],"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=224756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224758,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224756\/revisions\/224758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}