{"id":128091,"date":"2025-09-02T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128091\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:03:07","slug":"governor-josh-stein-announces-ai-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128091\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Josh Stein announces AI executive order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; In an executive order, Governor Josh Stein is creating new artificial intelligence initiatives across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The governor\u2019s executive order establishes an AI leadership council, AI accelerator in the state\u2019s Information Technology Department, and AI oversight teams within each state agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur state will be stronger if we are equipped to take on these challenges responsibly,\u201d Stein said. \u201cI am looking forward to this council helping our state effectively deploy AI to enhance government operations, drive economic growth, and improves North Carolinians\u2019 lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">North Carolina has seen a boom in the number of industries moving to the state, including AI. There are a number of large-scale AI projects happening across the state, according to Stein\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The governor\u2019s office says planning and preparation will be needed for job growth and making AI-related energy demands manageable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Information Technology Secretary Teena Piccione and Commerce Secretary Lee Lilley will co-chair the new leadership council together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; In an executive order, Governor Josh Stein is creating new artificial intelligence initiatives across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,10190,33204,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-128091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-executive-order","12":"tag-josh-stein","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}