{"id":176984,"date":"2026-01-12T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/new-york-state-replaces-ai-chief-names-new-chief-digital-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:05:09","slug":"new-york-state-replaces-ai-chief-names-new-chief-digital-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/new-york-state-replaces-ai-chief-names-new-chief-digital-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State replaces AI chief, names new chief digital officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/new-york-state-chief-ai-officer-eleonore-fournier-tombs\/\">New York State replaces AI chief, names new chief digital officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/new-york-state-chief-ai-officer-eleonore-fournier-tombs\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/new-york-state-chief-ai-officer-eleonore-fournier-tombs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 12:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The New York State Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) appointed Eleonore Fournier-Tombs as the new chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer, who will replace Shreya Amin, who left the position after less than a year.<\/li>\n<li>Fournier-Tombs, a researcher at the United Nations University, brings over 15 years of experience in AI, data governance, and technology innovation.<\/li>\n<li>Her main responsibilities include shaping the next phase of the AI strategy for ITS and state agencies, refining the &#8220;acceptable use of AI technologies&#8221; policy, and optimizing AI benefits while minimizing risks.<\/li>\n<li>Alongside Fournier-Tombs, Stephen Graham, formerly the CEO of Anontech, was named as the new chief digital officer tasked with modernizing and improving the delivery of digital services in New York State.<\/li>\n<li>Fournier-Tombs emphasizes her commitment to ethical and accountable use of AI, focusing on strengthening services, improving operations, and enabling data-driven decision-making.<\/li>\n<li>Previously, Shreya Amin launched Empire AI and completed a state-wide AI education and training pilot program involving about 1,000 state employees.<\/li>\n<li>Dru Rai, New York State Chief Information Officer, praised Fournier-Tombs\u2019s experience for accelerating innovation in the state by adopting emerging AI technologies responsibly.<\/li>\n<li>Keely Quinlan, the reporter for StateScoop, highlighted her background in journalism and social and cultural analysis, with coverage on privacy and digital government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York State replaces AI chief, names new chief digital officer https:\/\/statescoop.com\/new-york-state-chief-ai-officer-eleonore-fournier-tombs\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-607346151.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-176984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176986,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176984\/revisions\/176986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}