{"id":224383,"date":"2026-03-16T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/cdc-releases-ai-strategy-guidance-with-eye-toward-agentic-uses\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:16:00","slug":"cdc-releases-ai-strategy-guidance-with-eye-toward-agentic-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/cdc-releases-ai-strategy-guidance-with-eye-toward-agentic-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC releases AI strategy, guidance with eye toward \u2018agentic\u2019 uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/cdc-releases-ai-strategy-guidance-with-eye-toward-agentic-uses\/\">CDC releases AI strategy, guidance with eye toward \u2018agentic\u2019 uses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/cdc-releases-ai-strategy-guidance-with-eye-toward-agentic-uses\/\">https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/cdc-releases-ai-strategy-guidance-with-eye-toward-agentic-uses\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-16 18:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"fedscoop.com\">fedscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a strategy and guidance for use of artificial intelligence on Thursday, setting a direction for the agency\u2019s own work and providing resources for public health officials across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Those documents point to a desire to promote adoption of the technology, empower the workforce to use it, and ensure the tools are governed properly. But, more uniquely, the publications encourage the use of \u201cagentic\u201d or \u201cdeep research\u201d AI uses \u2014 those that can autonomously carry out specific tasks \u2014 which CDC is already tapping into.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 10% of CDC\u2019s roughly 100 AI use cases were agentic tools in 2025, according to the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 recently reported AI use case inventory. Its share of agentic uses makes up roughly a third of such deployments across the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the CDC\u2019s new strategy includes specific language to leverage that technology to support public health, strengthen research and data management, and improve access to data. And simultaneously, the agency released specific guidance for state, tribal, local and territorial (STLT) public health authorities on the use of AI agents for research based on experiences from its own exploration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the number one asks that we get from our partners is guidance around this technology,\u201d Travis Hoppe, the CDC\u2019s acting chief AI officer, told FedScoop. The AI inventory showed where the agency was using the technology, and the new materials followed through with more information, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The promise of agentic tools for agencies like CDC is that they can go beyond uses like email summarization and prescriptive tasks to move things forward, Hoppe said. For example, the CDC is already using a deep research tool to speed up the process of reviewing literature, data, policy and other sources to inform decision-making.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A common task for CDC staff is doing a three- to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/cdc-releases-ai-strategy-guidance-with-eye-toward-agentic-uses\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC releases AI strategy, guidance with eye toward \u2018agentic\u2019 uses https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/cdc-releases-ai-strategy-guidance-with-eye-toward-agentic-uses\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-16 18:16:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}