Recent settlement may have your attention. Please take your seat. Our program is about to begin. Welcome to the second Plenary Session of National Governors association 2024 winter meeting. Now approaching the podium is the executive director of the National Governors association bill mcbride. Thank you. Morning everyone. [applause] hope youre having a good morning. I hope you had a great evening. Wasnt that session yesterday afternoon just wonderful . That was fantastic, wasnt it . People keep asking me all last night how are you going to top that . I dont know. Thats a challenge, right . Setting the bar real high. We will get there. Anyway, we hope you really enjoyed it, but all of us in the room this morning are aware of emerging advances in Artificial Intelligence has presented to us and quite array of challenges and opportunities for states and territories over the past year and governments are leading to develop policies to address rapidly evolving but we are pleased to Data Tech
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