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RunND and Dakota Digital Academy urge state AI strategy, propose Dakota AI Collaborative and low-cost compute fund
Summary
The Dakota Digital Academy and NDUS leaders urged legislators to fund a coordinated state AI strategy, an AI collaborative to pool talent and compute, and a compute-access fund tied to data-center negotiations to support research, workforce and economic development.
Todd Pringle, director of the Dakota Digital Academy, told the Appropriations Committee the systemwide Envision 2035 process identified AI and digitization as dominant drivers of change and urged a coordinated state effort.
"We want to be in front of that train and not run over by that train," Pringle said, describing risks and opportunities as institutions adapt teaching, research and workforce programs to emerging AI tools.
Pringle outlined three near-term outcomes from a governor-appointed task force: formation of a Dakota AI Collaborative to…
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