{"id":183759,"date":"2025-09-26T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183759\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:00:05","slug":"umass-amherst-students-pitch-ai-projects-to-improve-government-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183759\/","title":{"rendered":"UMass Amherst students pitch AI projects to improve government services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Students from UMass Amherst pitch their AI-based projects to make state government run more efficiently during an event at the State House on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BYJFROOLEVGMVDBAUSWUZ4KBXU.jpg\"\/>Students from UMass Amherst pitch their AI-based projects to make state government run more efficiently during an event at the State House on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.John L. Micek\/MassLive<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CBG5UCIURZC2PI5LOY4I6HYL44\">The projects ranged from a training tool for dining hall workers to help bridge the cultural and language divide to another that would help residents more smoothly navigate the state\u2019s labyrinthine permitting system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7FRP6MWHC5BURCCIVDGMMHMSZQ\">All depended on artificial intelligence. All were the product of the hard work and vision of students at UMass Amherst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students from UMass Amherst pitch their AI-based projects to make state government run more efficiently during an event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-183759","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-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183759","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=183759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}