{"id":192660,"date":"2026-03-04T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/macquarie-unis-ai-chief-heads-to-la-trobe\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:25:13","slug":"macquarie-unis-ai-chief-heads-to-la-trobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/macquarie-unis-ai-chief-heads-to-la-trobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie Uni&#8217;s AI chief heads to La Trobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/macquarie-unis-ai-chief-heads-to-la-trobe-623997\">Macquarie Uni&#8217;s AI chief heads to La Trobe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/macquarie-unis-ai-chief-heads-to-la-trobe-623997\">https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/macquarie-unis-ai-chief-heads-to-la-trobe-623997<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-04 08:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.itnews.com.au\">www.itnews.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a summary of the article in an unordered list:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; La Trobe University hires Macquarie University\u2019s Phil Laufenberg as its inaugural Pro Vice-Chancellor (Artificial Intelligence) and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer.<br \/>\n&#8211; Laufenberg&#8217;s dual roles will focus on AI strategy and technical deployment at La Trobe.<br \/>\n&#8211; This appointment aims to establish La Trobe as an \u201cAI-first\u201d university, with a goal to provide access to advanced AI tools to all staff and students by the end of the year.<br \/>\n&#8211; Laufenberg will guide La Trobe in incorporating proven AI solutions while enhancing its data and security measures.<br \/>\n&#8211; Previously, Laufenberg led the development and deployment of Macquarie\u2019s generative AI assistant, ChatMQ, for its staff.<br \/>\n&#8211; Laufenberg will manage the integration of various large language models like those from OpenAI, Anthropic, and future plans to include Google\u2019s Gemini, into ChatMQ.<br \/>\n&#8211; His extensive background includes roles in AI education startups, web3 training, and virtual learning companies.<br \/>\n&#8211; Laufenberg can commence his role at La Trobe remotely from Sydney without relocating to Melbourne.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie Uni&#8217;s AI chief heads to La Trobe https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/macquarie-unis-ai-chief-heads-to-la-trobe-623997 Publish Date: 2026-03-04 08:01:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.nextmedia.com.au\/News\/phil_laufenberg_headshot_crop.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-192660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192660"}],"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=192660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192662,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192660\/revisions\/192662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}