{"id":792944,"date":"2026-07-11T06:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T06:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792944\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T06:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T06:08:19","slug":"chancellors-chancellor-john-pollaers-and-the-ai-mirror-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792944\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor\u2019s chancellor John Pollaers and the AI mirror test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since issuing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/anthropic-s-new-australian-boss-theo-hourmouzis-appears-to-use-ai-to-write-his-first-week-reflections-20260504-p5ztfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a rallying call <\/a>to stand against business leaders passing off AI slop as their own insights, this column has received many emails. One drew attention to the blog of Professor John Pollaers.<\/p>\n<p>Pollaers is the former Diageo executive and current chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology. He faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/transformation-guru-john-pollaers-won-t-explain-himself-20221031-p5bugc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">questions from this column<\/a> when Mike Cannon-Brookes got him on AGL Energy\u2019s board (where he still sits) for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/john-pollaers-finally-clarifies-his-transformations-20251111-p5neck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now-clarified<\/a> claim of being responsible for 16 \u201cmajor company transformations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since issuing a rallying call to stand against business leaders passing off AI slop as their own insights,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-792944","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\/792944","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=792944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}