{"id":199153,"date":"2026-03-25T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/macquarie-university-appoints-interim-ai-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:50:20","slug":"macquarie-university-appoints-interim-ai-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/macquarie-university-appoints-interim-ai-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie University appoints interim AI chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/macquarie-university-appoints-interim-ai-chief-624553\">Macquarie University appoints interim AI chief<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/macquarie-university-appoints-interim-ai-chief-624553\">https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/macquarie-university-appoints-interim-ai-chief-624553<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 13:42:00<\/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 using an unordered list:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Macquarie University has appointed Richard Watts-Seale as the interim head of AI, following Phil Laufenberg\u2019s move to La Trobe University.<br \/>\n&#8211; Laufenberg is transitioning to a dual role as pro vice-chancellor artificial intelligence and chief artificial intelligence officer at La Trobe University.<br \/>\n&#8211; Macquarie University expects its AI program to continue as planned despite Laufenberg\u2019s departure, with ongoing pilots and existing leadership from Jonathan Covell and Eric Knight.<br \/>\n&#8211; Currently, Macquarie\u2019s AI assistant, ChatMQ, allows staff to choose between AI models from OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Anthropic\u2019s Claude Sonnet, with plans to add Google\u2019s Gemini.<br \/>\n&#8211; La Trobe University views Laufenberg&#8217;s appointment as a key step in its goal of becoming an \u201cAI-first\u201d institution.<br \/>\n&#8211; Macquarie University spokesperson appreciates Laufenberg\u2019s contributions and wishes him success in his new position.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie University appoints interim AI chief https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/macquarie-university-appoints-interim-ai-chief-624553 Publish Date: 2026-03-25 13:42:00 Source Domain: www.itnews.com.au Here&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.nextmedia.com.au\/News\/Macquarie_Uni.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-199153","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\/199153"}],"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=199153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199155,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199153\/revisions\/199155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}