North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein signs an executive order on state government's use of artificial intelligence on Sept. 2, 2025. (Photo by Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein said Tuesday he is creating a council to study and begin using artificial intelligence within state government, signing an executive order and sketching out what he described as a years-long plan to use the technology for “economic growth and attract innovation.”
The AI announcement came alongside another long-term blueprint to attract business in the biotech industry, as well as a plan to make North Carolina’s public schools “the best in the country.”
Stein’s Tuesday order creates a leadership council that will study how state workers should use AI. It will be chaired by Lee Lilley, the secretary of the Department of Commerce, and Teena Piccione, the secretary of the Department of Information Technology who joined the administration from a senior leadership role at Google.
Piccione’s department will also house a new “AI accelerator,” which will “explore and implement AI solutions to real world problems,” Piccione said. And state agencies will each have an “oversight team” guiding proper uses of AI.
The goal, she said, was to make North Carolina the “most AI-literate state government workforce in the nation.”
Teena Piccione, secretary of the NC Department of IT, speaks to reporters on Sept, 2, 2025. Piccione joined the state after a senior role at Google. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)Still, she and the governor acknowledged that uncertainty reigns as states grapple with AI’s limits and flaws. It presents “serious risks” alongside “extraordinary possibilities,” Stein said, and added that the state had created a “framework” to help guide state workers on how to use, or not use, the technology. He pointed to agencies like the bogged-down DMV that he believes could be more efficient at “getting people through the system quicker.”
What does that mean for state workers whose jobs could heavily overlap with AI usage? Nothing right now, Stein said — though he acknowledged that could change in the future.
“I’m not denying that there may be employment consequences,” Stein said. “But we are nowhere near that at this point.”
Other sectors of North Carolina government have already ventured into AI usage and policy. State Treasurer Brad Briner’s office partnered with OpenAI earlier this year in an effort to make parts of that office’s work more efficiently. And state lawmakers have filed more than two dozen bills on the topic so far this session: dealing with everything from algorithmic rent fixing to AI ethics and literacy in K-12 education.
Governments across the U.S. at all levels have begun to lean more into AI use — and regulation. Many cities have developed “guidelines” to steer workers’ use of AI. Congress, as members debated what would become a massive tax and spending bill, weighed banning states from regulating AI. That language was stripped out before the package became law.
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