Central Washington University Executive Director of Business and Community Services Rob Ogburn helps explain how AI can be utilized by local communities to develop into the future. Some of the ways AI can be used in developing a community is showing what education is needed to help grow certain industries.
December 16, 2025
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Local experts eye AI to help develop the future
MOSES LAKE — AI technology has been developing quickly over the last few years with multiple avenues and questions arising regarding its use in everyday life. NCW Tech Alliance hopes to guide North Central Washington in how to utilize this technology as it continues to evolve. “AI is a general-purpose technology and so it’s much easier to understand what’s possible and the vastness of what opportunities there are in AI if you think about it in that way,” said Sue Kane, CEO of NCW Tech Alliance.