Artificial Intelligence

A bill proposed by state Sen. Saud Anwar seeks to amend state code to bar health insurance carriers from using AI to determine patient care. The aim is “to safeguard patient access to testing, medications and procedures.”

OpenAI has committed $50 million for research and technology to support AI breakthroughs at 15 institutions including the University of Michigan, the California State University system and Harvard University.

A private university in Maine is the first institution in the U.S. to go live with an artificial intelligence agent built by Agentforce, part of Salesforce's platform that helps organizations build and deploy AI agents.

As fraudsters exploit open-access policies and online learning, colleges are turning to artificial intelligence to reclaim student seats and safeguard financial aid.

Pennsylvania CIO Amaya Capellán and her team are focused on the overall experience of state employees, residents and businesses.

A professor of educational theory is creating an AI tool that records video and audio to determine whether a teacher addressed each section of the classroom, how often they used group work and other techniques.

Following an internal survey that exposed a significant lack of artificial intelligence policy awareness, Indianapolis and Marion County are providing AI training through a partnership with InnovateUS.

Eric Hayden, the city’s CIO and CTO, is helping oversee a refresh of emergency and fire response via artificial intelligence, which helps guide efforts and increase capabilities in the state’s third most populous city.

The number of AI-related job postings in the Grand Rapids area has increased 338 percent since 2022, so Grand Valley State University is expanding its College of Computing with new programs and concentrations.

Local IT leaders in California and Delaware wield innovation and collaboration to reimagine technology, integrating community dialog into modernization to deliver projects that reflect a variety of feedback.

State officials have made several changes to the IT procurement process in an effort to expand public-private partnership opportunities, increase efficiency for businesses, and save taxpayers money.

A new EDUCAUSE study reveals that while AI is becoming a strategic priority in higher education, cost and policy development, especially at small schools, still hinders widespread implementation.

Created by gubernatorial executive order, the state’s new Department of Governmental Efficiency team will work to “promote efficiency, maximize productivity and eliminate waste in state and local government.”

Leaders in the area, a regional industrial and manufacturing hub, have said the facilities cost too much and don’t employ enough people. Finding enough power to run them, regional officials said, could be tough.

A bipartisan group of senators in the state Legislature is currently pushing for more restrictions on convincing computer-generated sexually explicit images of real people.

Specifically designed for faculty, MonarchMind gives users access to ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama on a secure, university-run system that does not share chat data with outside parties or use it to train AI models.

State decision-makers continue to grapple with a series of questions raised in many of the 20-plus other AI-related memos and bills submitted in the Pennsylvania Legislature in the last two-year session.

Watchdogs and regulators are concerned new data centers could weigh heavily on residents’ power bills without proper curbs. One utility’s request to tweak an electric rate comes in part to confront those concerns.