{"id":684937,"date":"2026-05-21T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684937\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:11:30","slug":"australiansuper-hires-its-first-head-of-ai-and-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684937\/","title":{"rendered":"AustralianSuper hires its first head of AI and automation"},"content":{"rendered":"

AustralianSuper has appointed Microsoft A\/NZ’s current national chief technology officer Sarah Carney as its inaugural head of artificial intelligence and automation.<\/p>\n

\"AustralianSuper<\/p>\n

Carney will step into the newly created role in late July this year.<\/p>\n

Chief technology officer Mike Backeberg said the hire is a major step in the fund’s technology evolution.<\/p>\n

A Microsoft veteran of nearly 11 years, Carney has held different technical and strategic roles at the company.<\/p>\n

She also spent almost four years prior at Telstra, as part of the telco’s enterprise and government operations team.<\/p>\n

AustralianSuper said it has already embraced AI and automation across its business and is looking at aligning autonomous agents with human intent.<\/p>\n

Carney said that she had had a front seat at Microsoft, seeing the development and growth of AI and automation globally, and was looking forward to applying the technologies to support AustralianSuper.<\/p>\n

Last year, AustralianSuper said<\/a> it had implemented Microsoft’s Security Copilot AI, fearing threat actors are increasingly using AI to aid their attacks.<\/p>\n

AustralianSuper uses Security Copilot not just to provide defence but also to understand how threat actors use AI, Backeberg said.<\/p>\n

Backeberg labelled AI as the “single biggest global threat” at the time.<\/p>\n

AustralianSuper manages over $410 billion in funds on behalf of more than 3.6 million people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AustralianSuper has appointed Microsoft A\/NZ’s current national chief technology officer Sarah Carney as its inaugural head of artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-684937","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\/684937","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=684937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}