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Gov. Spencer Cox announced Utah's "pro-human" AI initiative at the 2025 Utah AI Summit.

The initiative focuses on workforce, industry, government, academia, policy and learning.

Utah allocated $10 million for workforce development, emphasizing AI-driven sectors and education.

SALT LAKE CITY — Long before he was Utah's governor, Spencer Cox spent a lot of time on college campuses championing the rise of technology as a self-described "true tech optimist."

"I was talking to young people about the Arab Spring, about how the rise of social media was going to solve all of our problems and bring us together as a nation, as a world," Cox said Tuesday while addressing the crowd at the 2025 Utah AI Summit in Salt Lake City.

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