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  "title": "Hoyas.ai briefings",
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  "description": "Source-led updates on AI activity connected to Georgetown and Washington, DC",
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      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/georgetown-law-ai-economy-summit-recap/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/georgetown-law-ai-economy-summit-recap/",
      "title": "Georgetown Law and EqualAI convene AI economy summit",
      "summary": "A September 15 summit at Georgetown Law examined AI literacy, public trust, work, education, and governance.",
      "content_text": "A September 15 summit at Georgetown Law examined AI literacy, public trust, work, education, and governance.\n\nWhy it matters: The convening shows how one Georgetown Law unit is engaging the policy and practical questions around AI literacy.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Event coverage",
        "AI literacy",
        "governance",
        "future of work",
        "education"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/university-wide-ai-initiative/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/university-wide-ai-initiative/",
      "title": "Georgetown organizes its university-wide AI initiative around a faculty steering committee and three input groups",
      "summary": "A nine-member faculty steering committee will lead the university-wide effort, supported by input groups for research, teaching and pedagogy, and administration and operations.",
      "content_text": "A nine-member faculty steering committee will lead the university-wide effort, supported by input groups for research, teaching and pedagogy, and administration and operations.\n\nWhy it matters: The September 18 organization update identifies the faculty leaders, input structure, and reporting path that will shape Georgetown's university-wide AI principles and guidance.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "University direction",
        "governance",
        "responsible AI",
        "university strategy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/ai-colab-internships/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/ai-colab-internships/",
      "title": "AI CoLab offers three pathways into applied healthcare AI research",
      "summary": "Internship, capstone, and yearlong fellowship tracks connect learners and early-career professionals with Georgetown and MedStar Health research.",
      "content_text": "Internship, capstone, and yearlong fellowship tracks connect learners and early-career professionals with Georgetown and MedStar Health research.\n\nWhy it matters: The three tracks offer concrete ways to build applied AI research experience across different career stages.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Opportunity",
        "healthcare AI",
        "research",
        "internships",
        "machine learning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/ai-move-fellowship/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/ai-move-fellowship/",
      "title": "Graduate students can explore the Handshake AI MOVE Fellowship",
      "summary": "Georgetown's Graduate Career Center highlights a flexible paid microinternship that connects graduate students' domain expertise with AI training work.",
      "content_text": "Georgetown's Graduate Career Center highlights a flexible paid microinternship that connects graduate students' domain expertise with AI training work.\n\nWhy it matters: The listing offers a flexible entry point for graduate students who have subject-matter expertise but may not have prior AI experience.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Opportunity",
        "careers",
        "microinternship",
        "AI workforce"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/aidc-community-fellowship/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/aidc-community-fellowship/",
      "title": "AIDC invites applications for its community fellowship",
      "summary": "The academic-year fellowship supports humanistic research on artificial intelligence and democracy with a $10,000 stipend.",
      "content_text": "The academic-year fellowship supports humanistic research on artificial intelligence and democracy with a $10,000 stipend.\n\nWhy it matters: The fellowship creates a Georgetown-based pathway for scholarship that puts democratic life and humanistic inquiry at the center of AI research.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Opportunity",
        "AI and democracy",
        "humanities",
        "research fellowship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/aidc-postdoctoral-fellowship/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/aidc-postdoctoral-fellowship/",
      "title": "AIDC lists a postdoctoral fellowship in AI and democratic citizenship",
      "summary": "The academic-year position combines research, collaborative programming, and teaching related to artificial intelligence and democracy.",
      "content_text": "The academic-year position combines research, collaborative programming, and teaching related to artificial intelligence and democracy.\n\nWhy it matters: The role adds a teaching and research pathway for scholars working at the intersection of emerging technology and democratic life.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Opportunity",
        "AI and democracy",
        "postdoctoral fellowship",
        "teaching",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/cawley-ai-career-toolkit/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/cawley-ai-career-toolkit/",
      "title": "The Cawley Career Center offers an AI career toolkit",
      "summary": "The toolkit helps students consider how to use AI in career exploration, application preparation, and professional decision-making.",
      "content_text": "The toolkit helps students consider how to use AI in career exploration, application preparation, and professional decision-making.\n\nWhy it matters: Career use is one of the most immediate ways students encounter generative AI, making practical guidance more useful than broad encouragement alone.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Practical resource",
        "careers",
        "AI tools",
        "students"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/nist-prep-ai-positions/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/nist-prep-ai-positions/",
      "title": "Georgetown's NIST PREP page lists multiple applied AI research roles",
      "summary": "Current listings include work in AI cybersecurity, manufacturing, agentic systems, AI-ready datasets, and other technical research areas.",
      "content_text": "Current listings include work in AI cybersecurity, manufacturing, agentic systems, AI-ready datasets, and other technical research areas.\n\nWhy it matters: The listings connect Georgetown-administered research opportunities with applied federal work across several AI domains and career stages.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Opportunity",
        "AI jobs",
        "research",
        "cybersecurity",
        "NIST"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/research-opportunities-database/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/research-opportunities-database/",
      "title": "Georgetown's research database brings undergraduate opportunities into one search",
      "summary": "The GU360 database helps undergraduates find mentored programs, awards, stipends, and other research experiences across Georgetown.",
      "content_text": "The GU360 database helps undergraduates find mentored programs, awards, stipends, and other research experiences across Georgetown.\n\nWhy it matters: A centralized finder reduces the burden of locating research pathways scattered across university departments and programs.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Practical resource",
        "undergraduate research",
        "opportunity finder",
        "GU360"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/ai-fellows/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/ai-fellows/",
      "title": "AI Fellows applications are due October 5 for faculty and students",
      "summary": "Georgetown's current program pages set an October 5 proposal deadline and say selections will be announced by October 12.",
      "content_text": "Georgetown's current program pages set an October 5 proposal deadline and say selections will be announced by October 12.\n\nWhy it matters: The pilot gives faculty and students a direct way to test AI's value and limits in real courses.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Opportunity",
        "teaching",
        "learning",
        "student opportunity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/responsible-use-guidelines/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/responsible-use-guidelines/",
      "title": "Start with Georgetown's responsible-use guidelines",
      "summary": "The university guidance addresses accountability, transparency, fairness, privacy, security, and intellectual property.",
      "content_text": "The university guidance addresses accountability, transparency, fairness, privacy, security, and intellectual property.\n\nWhy it matters: The guidelines give community members a credible starting point for evaluating responsible AI use in university work.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Practical resource",
        "responsible AI",
        "policy",
        "privacy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/strategic-leadership-ai-program/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/strategic-leadership-ai-program/",
      "title": "Georgetown launches a master's in Strategic Leadership and AI",
      "summary": "The new online program integrates leadership, organizational change, ethics, and responsible AI adoption for working professionals.",
      "content_text": "The new online program integrates leadership, organizational change, ethics, and responsible AI adoption for working professionals.\n\nWhy it matters: The program expands Georgetown's AI education portfolio beyond technical development toward organizational leadership and responsible adoption.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "University direction",
        "academic programs",
        "leadership",
        "AI strategy",
        "workforce"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/grit-research-translation-award/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/grit-research-translation-award/",
      "title": "A new NSF award expands Georgetown's research translation capacity",
      "summary": "The four-year GRIT 2.0 project will support research translation, industry partnerships, and workforce development, including work involving AI, data, and digital health.",
      "content_text": "The four-year GRIT 2.0 project will support research translation, industry partnerships, and workforce development, including work involving AI, data, and digital health.\n\nWhy it matters: The award strengthens the infrastructure that helps research move toward practical use, partnerships, and wider impact.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "University direction",
        "research translation",
        "NSF",
        "AI research",
        "innovation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/helen-toner-cnbc-ai-safety/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/helen-toner-cnbc-ai-safety/",
      "title": "Helen Toner discusses AI safety and U.S.–China competition on CNBC",
      "summary": "The CSET executive director addressed warnings from AI leaders, proposals to slow development, and the strategic competition surrounding advanced AI.",
      "content_text": "The CSET executive director addressed warnings from AI leaders, proposals to slow development, and the strategic competition surrounding advanced AI.\n\nWhy it matters: The appearance connects Georgetown-based policy expertise to a national debate about safety, strategic competition, and the pace of AI development.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Media & Interviews",
        "AI safety",
        "China",
        "national security",
        "AI governance"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/meg-leta-jones-ai-school-bans/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/meg-leta-jones-ai-school-bans/",
      "title": "Meg Leta Jones examines whether schools can meaningfully ban generative AI",
      "summary": "The Georgetown professor argued for caution, community-sensitive policy, and stronger protections as generative AI becomes embedded in education technology.",
      "content_text": "The Georgetown professor argued for caution, community-sensitive policy, and stronger protections as generative AI becomes embedded in education technology.\n\nWhy it matters: The interview links AI governance to practical questions about student privacy, product design, local policy, and how educational communities make decisions.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Media & Interviews",
        "education",
        "student privacy",
        "AI policy",
        "children and technology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/elissa-redmiles-consent-ai/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/elissa-redmiles-consent-ai/",
      "title": "Elissa Redmiles explains why consent is a central AI safety problem",
      "summary": "The Georgetown computer scientist discussed AI-generated sexual content, the limits of technical safeguards, and the gap between detecting synthetic media and protecting people.",
      "content_text": "The Georgetown computer scientist discussed AI-generated sexual content, the limits of technical safeguards, and the gap between detecting synthetic media and protecting people.\n\nWhy it matters: The conversation shows why responsible AI requires more than content labels: governance must address consent, prevention, reporting, platform behavior, and real-world harm.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "georgetown",
        "Media & Interviews",
        "AI safety",
        "privacy",
        "consent",
        "online harms"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/william-hannas-embodied-ai/",
      "url": "https://hoyas.ai/updates/william-hannas-embodied-ai/",
      "title": "William Hannas discusses China’s push toward embodied AI",
      "summary": "The CSET analyst joined the ChinaPower podcast to discuss robotics, physical-world AI, and why Chinese researchers view embodied systems as a pathway toward advanced intelligence.",
      "content_text": "The CSET analyst joined the ChinaPower podcast to discuss robotics, physical-world AI, and why Chinese researchers view embodied systems as a pathway toward advanced intelligence.\n\nWhy it matters: The conversation broadens the public AI debate beyond chatbots to robotics, industrial strategy, and the physical deployment of intelligent systems.",
      "date_published": "2026-02-13T00:00:00.000Z",
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        "georgetown",
        "Media & Interviews",
        "China",
        "robotics",
        "embodied AI",
        "international competition"
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