by Daniel Johnson
June 15, 2025
In keeping with Dr. Denise Gregory Jones, JSU’s interim president, the grant represents a step ahead of their makes an attempt to serve college students and the broader Jackson neighborhood.
As a part of Mississippi’s $9.1 million funding in larger schooling to strengthen the state’s future workforce and financial competitiveness, Jackson State College has been awarded a $1.3 million grant to increase schooling, workforce growth, and entrepreneurship in synthetic intelligence. The funding comes by means of Gov. Tate Reeves’ newly launched Mississippi Synthetic Intelligence Expertise Accelerator Program (MAI-TAP).
In keeping with Dr. Denise Gregory Jones, JSU’s interim president, the grant represents a step ahead of their makes an attempt to serve college students on the college and the broader Jackson neighborhood. “We’re grateful for this funding in Jackson State College’s mission to increase entry to rising fields,” Jones Gregory stated within the press launch. “This grant affirms the standard of our college and packages and permits us to present college students the data and expertise to navigate and contribute to the world they’re coming into. It’s one other step ahead in our work to serve college students and communities by means of innovation and alternative.”
Likewise, Dr. Almesha L. Campbell, the vice chairman for analysis and financial growth, praised the funding into the college in her personal assertion.
“We’re excited to steer this initiative that can empower Mississippi college students, academics and entrepreneurs to interact in significant studying experiences round synthetic intelligence,” Campbell stated. “This undertaking helps our strategic give attention to innovation, workforce growth and tutorial prominence. By way of this grant, Jackson State will collaborate with companions to construct a mannequin that prepares learners at each degree to know, apply and form the way forward for AI.”
Dr. Lisa Mosley, Senior Director of AI Initiatives at Jackson State College, joins the dialog to interrupt down Mississippi’s new $9 million AI Expertise Accelerator Program. pic.twitter.com/7qCaXYzlmJ
– Supertalk Mississippi (@suertalk) June 13, 2025
We’ve formally launched the Mississippi AI Expertise Accelerator Program (MAI-TAP)! It’s a brand new initiative that fosters the event of AI, machine studying, and associated technical capacities throughout the state’s establishments of upper studying to help the enlargement of @awscloud… pic.twitter.com/zc6vXtaoJ3
— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) June 12, 2025
In keeping with the press launch, Mississippi’s technique for its AI growth facilities round 5 fundamental rules: funding in human capital infrastructure, constructing AI and machine studying literacy for residents of Mississippi, enhancing and upskilling abilities for people who find themselves creating new instruments and applied sciences, and supporting AI/machine studying innovation and expertise development.
In keeping with Motion Information 5, Reeves beforehand signed an govt order in January aimed toward harnessing AI in Mississippi and issued a press release declaring his intentions that Mississippi emerge as a pacesetter within the subject of synthetic intelligence.
Regardless of these actions, nonetheless, as Jason Ludwig argued in a 2024 op-ed for Public Books that components of this platform, significantly the give attention to upskilling, can put Black individuals and different working-class individuals in a race towards one another to study new abilities, when as a substitute individuals ought to demand that any new technological improvements be used for the advantage of society at massive and never the cottage industries spawned by improvements created for the advantage of capitalism.
Mississippi has been centered on making a process drive for synthetic intelligence which might partially, advance AI initiatives with out “crimson tape” which normally means with none significant regulation of synthetic intelligence.
In an op-ed for Supertalk FM, Rep. Jill Ford stated little about ensuring the state’s AI initiatives would safeguard residents by means of rules, however appeared disinterested within the thought altogetheras a substitute arguing that the state wants development, funding and insurance policies that strengthen Mississippi’s economic system, greater than AI wants regulation.
As Brookings senior fellow Darrell M. West succinctly identified, ignoring the necessity for vital AI regulation doesn’t imply it doesn’t have to occur, significantly given the penchant for present AI programs to bolster racist attitudes or simply make up false and deceptive content material.
“None of those points will disappear just because the present political management or Massive Tech CEOs say they aren’t a priority. Ignoring widespread public doubts and documented abuses doesn’t make the issues go away. Magic could also be entertaining on stage, however disappearing acts don’t work in actual life,” West wrote.
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