Maryland has released its comprehensive 2025 AI Enablement Strategy and AI Study Roadmap, signaling a bold step toward leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance state services and improve constituent outcomes. The plan, drafted by the Governor’s AI Subcabinet under the guidance of Governor Wes Moore, aims to responsibly, ethically, and productively integrate AI into government operations.
The roadmap follows the groundwork laid in 2024 with the passage of the AI Governance Act (SB818) and the Governor’s AI Executive Order. Key achievements in 2024 included creating interim generative AI guidelines, conducting an AI inventory, providing free AI training for state employees, and initiating proof-of-concept (PoC) projects across state agencies.
The 2025 plan builds on these efforts with five strategic pillars:
- Mature AI Governance Capabilities: Maryland seeks to operationalize a formal AI governance framework to manage the growing number of AI requests and deployments. This includes integrating governance into procurement and risk management processes.
- Strengthen Data Foundations: Reliable data is essential for AI success. Maryland will prioritize improving data governance, ensuring privacy protections, and creating an authoritative data sources program to identify “AI-ready” datasets.
- Accelerate Experimentation and Adoption: The state plans to shift from opportunistic to structured experimentation, encouraging pilots, hackathons, and statewide sandboxes to evaluate the potential of AI tools. Clear playbooks will help agencies scale successful pilots.
- Increase AI Literacy: Maryland will expand AI training for state workers, establish a Maryland Data Academy, and foster partnerships with local academic institutions to bolster AI expertise and upskill employees.
- Study AI Across Critical Domains: Maryland will conduct in-depth studies on AI’s impact in areas such as workforce development, critical infrastructure, education, healthcare, cybersecurity, and economic development. The findings, expected by December 2025, will inform future strategies.
The strategy emphasizes collaboration across government, academia, and industry to adopt best practices and address challenges like data privacy, algorithmic bias, and workforce disruptions. Notably, Maryland plans to evaluate AI’s role in election security, public safety, and criminal justice, ensuring that technology is deployed transparently and equitably. Governor Moore’s administration envisions AI as a transformative tool to improve public services and drive economic growth while maintaining public trust and accountability.
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