{"id":637950,"date":"2026-04-29T07:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637950\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:16:23","slug":"nab-is-building-an-ai-science-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637950\/","title":{"rendered":"NAB is building an &#8220;AI science&#8221; team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAB is assembling an \u201cAI science\u201d team to drive adoption of the technology across the bank, headed up by a data scientist from McKinsey\u2019s AI arm, QuantumBlack.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"ContentPlaceHolder1_ucArticle_imgImage\" width=\"748\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777446983_56_ImageResizer.ashx.jpeg\" alt=\"NAB is building an &quot;AI science&quot; team\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s chief AI officer Mahya Knox said that the team \u201cwill play an integral part in building rigorous AI agent architecture, evaluation methodology and new AI products, ensuring the ability to operate these components safely for the whole bank and create outstanding customer experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we implement AI safely and at scale, we must have the right skills, capabilities and experience,\u201d Knox said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to build that foundational capability in-house, helping us create safe and valuable solutions that deliver for the whole enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AI science team will be led by George Mathews, who joins NAB from McKinsey\u2019s AI arm QuantumBlack where he was most recently the senior principal data scientist.<\/p>\n<p>Mathews also has prior experience with CSIRO\u2019s Data61.<\/p>\n<p>The AI science team is expected to get \u201chands-on\u201d with building AI systems and products.<\/p>\n<p>It will ultimately comprise a multi-disciplinary squad of AI scientists, AI engineers, data scientists, engineers, product managers and designers, with the bank recruiting to add to the nascent function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAB is assembling an \u201cAI science\u201d team to drive adoption of the technology across the bank, headed up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-637950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}