{"id":230114,"date":"2026-06-11T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/usc-hiring-conor-mcquiston-as-director-of-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:40:15","slug":"usc-hiring-conor-mcquiston-as-director-of-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/usc-hiring-conor-mcquiston-as-director-of-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"USC hiring Conor McQuiston as director of artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/usc-hiring-conor-mcquiston-director-154621499.html\">USC hiring Conor McQuiston as director of artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/usc-hiring-conor-mcquiston-director-154621499.html\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/usc-hiring-conor-mcquiston-director-154621499.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 11:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"sports.yahoo.com\">sports.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USC Lincoln Riley&#8217;s football program is hiring Conor McQuiston as its first-ever director of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li>McQuiston has prior analytics experience in both the NFL and college football.<\/li>\n<li>The hiring aims to keep USC at the forefront of innovation in the athletics department.<\/li>\n<li>McQuiston will report directly to USC general manager Chad Bowden.<\/li>\n<li>USC plans to hire additional full-time staff to support the football program&#8217;s Analytics department and research.<\/li>\n<li>USC\u2019s athletics director, Jennifer Cohen, shows strong support for this AI initiative.<\/li>\n<li>The move reflects USC&#8217;s intent to lead and stay ahead in using technology in the athletic department and beyond.<\/li>\n<li>The author reassures readers that AI will not be used to write their articles automatically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC hiring Conor McQuiston as director of artificial intelligence https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/usc-hiring-conor-mcquiston-director-154621499.html Publish Date: 2026-06-11 11:46:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/3PZfTZKRdXgSqr3cMkzHWQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD0xODAwO2NmPXdlYnA-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/trojans_wire_usa_today_articles_495\/b1c89965589c60c30c62f3029b188630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-230114","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\/230114"}],"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=230114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230120,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230114\/revisions\/230120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}