{"id":895144,"date":"2026-09-17T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895144\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:24:13","slug":"australian-unis-sign-ai-deals-as-staff-and-students-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895144\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian unis sign AI deals, as staff and students protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As several global AI leaders continue their calls to slow the development of artificial intelligence, Australian universities are turning to the tech giants for new partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>The University of New South Wales, and the University of Sydney have both signed agreements with Open AI to roll out its education specific technology this month.<\/p>\n<p>University of Sydney staff went on strike &#8211; in part &#8211; over AI concerns earlier this month, with students demonstrating against the new agreement yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GUEST: Professor Mark Scott, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of SydneyPRODUCER: Joe Sullivan\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As several global AI leaders continue their calls to slow the development of artificial intelligence, Australian universities are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2655,256,254,255,64,63,216734,141676,5044,76051,58654,1773,231398,29717,464185,464184,105,7893,16876,69471],"class_list":["post-895144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-abc","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mark-scott","tag-nteu","tag-openai","tag-radio-national","tag-radio-national-breakfast","tag-rn-breakfast","tag-rnb","tag-sally-sara","tag-staff-strike","tag-student-protest","tag-technology","tag-union","tag-universities","tag-university-of-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895144","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=895144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}