{"id":227535,"date":"2026-03-25T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/macquarie-university-appoints-interim-ai-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:15:23","slug":"macquarie-university-appoints-interim-ai-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/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>Macquarie University has appointed an interim head of AI following Phil Laufenberg\u2019s departure to take up a pro vice-chancellorship\u00a0with Victoria\u2019s La Trobe University.<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        Image credit: Macquarie University.\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>The university has temporarily appointed the technical lead for its AI transformation program, Richard Watts-Seale, to the role, a spokesperson for the university said.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that Macquarie\u2019s AI adoption is not expected to be impacted by Laufenberg\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Macquarie\u2019s chief information and digital officer, Jonathan Covell, and Eric Knight, its deputy vice-chancellor of people and operations, provide the university\u2019s overall AI strategy, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur AI program continues as planned, and we have new pilots afoot,\u201d Macquarie University\u2019s spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful for the leadership and work Laufenberg has shown during his time at Macquarie. He has made a positive contribution to the University over the past 18 months in the role and we wish him well in his new role at La Trobe University,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>La Trobe lured Laufenberg from Macquarie with an offer of a pro vice-chancellorship position focused on the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Joining La Trobe from early next month, Laufenberg will take on dual titles: pro vice-chancellor artificial intelligence and chief artificial intelligence officer.<\/p>\n<p>The titles reflect his twin responsibilities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/macquarie-university-appoints-interim-ai-chief-624553\">Source<\/a><\/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 Macquarie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227536,"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-227535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227537,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227535\/revisions\/227537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}