{"id":229163,"date":"2026-06-10T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/unc-announces-saif-kharait-as-new-chief-artificial-intelligence-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:05:11","slug":"unc-announces-saif-kharait-as-new-chief-artificial-intelligence-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/unc-announces-saif-kharait-as-new-chief-artificial-intelligence-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC Announces Saif Kharait As New Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chapelboro.com\/news\/unc\/unc-announces-saif-kharait-as-new-chief-artificial-intelligence-officer\">UNC Announces Saif Kharait As New Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chapelboro.com\/news\/unc\/unc-announces-saif-kharait-as-new-chief-artificial-intelligence-officer\">https:\/\/chapelboro.com\/news\/unc\/unc-announces-saif-kharait-as-new-chief-artificial-intelligence-officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-10 05:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"chapelboro.com\">chapelboro.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UNC has named Saif Khairat, professor at the School of Nursing, as its next Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer in a secondary appointment, while retaining his faculty role.<\/li>\n<li>Khairat aims to ensure that AI invention, use, and governance at UNC serve the public good and advance the university&#8217;s mission.<\/li>\n<li>The appointment comes after Jeffrey Bardzell, former AI officer and Dean of the School of Information and Library Science, left for another position.<\/li>\n<li>Khairat heads UNC&#8217;s &#8220;AI for Public Good&#8221; initiative which focuses on developing AI applications benefiting the public rather than private gain.<\/li>\n<li>Khairat has an extensive background in healthcare AI, being director of the Center for Virtual Care Value and Excellence, associate director of the Carolina Health Informatics Program, and fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.<\/li>\n<li>UNC Provost Magnus Egerstedt expressed enthusiasm for Khairat&#8217;s expertise, vision and collaborative approach in harnessing AI responsibly.<\/li>\n<li>Khairat reiterated his focus on integrating AI in ways that are practical, collaborative, and true to UNC&#8217;s mission to serve North Carolina and the public good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNC Announces Saif Kharait As New Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer https:\/\/chapelboro.com\/news\/unc\/unc-announces-saif-kharait-as-new-chief-artificial-intelligence-officer Publish Date: 2026-06-10 05:03:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/chapelboromedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/09141350\/khairat.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-229163","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\/229163"}],"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=229163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229165,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229163\/revisions\/229165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}