EASTON, MARYLAND — Three statewide AI numbers matter first for Mid-Shore parents and workers reading Annapolis: three guiding principles, a $4 million Labor training investment named in the release, and school steps that point districts toward protocols and model lesson plans.

Gov. Wes Moore on Sept. 22, 2026, announced an AI framework centered on Maryland communities, workers, and children for the responsible development, deployment, and regulation of artificial intelligence, and for equipping Maryland’s workforce to thrive alongside it. The agenda outlines three guiding principles: protecting people, centering workers, and keeping kids safe.

Protecting people includes legislative recommendations for regulating frontier AI model companies — safety frameworks and testing, worker protections, independent third-party audits, whistleblower protections, public reporting, and 72-hour incident reporting — plus a proposed statutory Right of Publicity and guidance so existing civil rights, housing, lending, and employment laws reach AI-driven decisions.

Centering workers includes a standing Labor-Management Committee for State workers, convenings with unions, businesses, and higher education on workforce transition, and continued reskilling and upskilling. The release says the Labor investment expands hands-on training in Maryland’s lighthouse industries and strengthens local cybersecurity initiatives, and that the administration partnered with RAISE US.

Keeping kids safe includes stronger chatbot protections, work against addictive design for users under 16, extending crisis-response into classrooms with MSDE, a “do no harm” policy for classroom AI tools, and MSDE model K-12 lesson plans. The framework builds on the governor’s 2024 Executive Order, the Artificial Intelligence Governance Act of 2024, and the State of Maryland’s Responsible AI Policy published by the Department of Information Technology.

“With the speed with which AI is moving, Marylanders deserve guardrails that safeguard their rights, privacy, and dignity,” Moore said. “This technology is already here, and we believe Maryland is the best state in the country to benefit from the promise of AI responsibly – but we can’t afford to wait while Washington sits on their hands. These core principles will guide our every action to protect our people, center our workers, and keep our kids safe.”

The Talbot Patriot has covered TCPS’s own AI policy, Policy 9.18, separately. The Sept. 22 statewide framework is Annapolis’s people-workers-kids agenda, not a substitute for that TCPS board policy record.