A thread of Future of Children's Care podcasts.

RT @RebekahPierre92: @SWConcern Such an important point. No answers, only more questions:. - What happens if personal data is leaked? Could….

'More than 1000 people have been shot, primarily by Israeli soldiers, while trying to get food from the private US Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and while waiting for aid trucks by border crossings.'. GHF was set up w/ BCG, key backer of @FrontlineSW .

'The AI Revolution Is a Heist. Behind the promises of progress lies a simple play: take what others built, offer nothing back, and call it innovation'.

- Human knowledge becomes flattened, homogenised resulting in a kind of global group think which lends itself very well to political control domination. What do you think?.

- Business is diverted from SMEs through reduced web traffic, towards those endorsed by the abovementioned tech oligarchs. - The benefits and joys of learning through discovery are replaced by convenient summaries that reflect the interests and biases of tech oligarchs. contd. .

Thoughts:. - Knowledge and information, and the means of controlling them, are becoming more centralized and concentrated in the hands of a few powerful, private interests (tech oligarchs). contd. .

'According to recent studies, AI summaries have reduced website traffic by 30-70%, depending on the search term. Even more mind-blowing, upwards of 60% of all Google searches are now termed “zero-click,” or the user never leaves the Search Engine Results Page' . contd. .

RT @SWConcern: In order to uphold public trust:. - Should all social workers be required to mandatorily declare whether they have used AI i….

In order to uphold public trust:. - Should all social workers be required to mandatorily declare whether they have used AI in any part of their work, whether in case notes, assessments, reports?. - Should any such duty extend to declaring when AI has NOT been used?. Thoughts?.

The debate about GenAI in social work focuses mainly on specialised 'tools' bought by LAs to relieve social workers of admin. What of the 'underground' use of generic GenAI like ChatGPT by social workers? . This is an urgent regulatory issue. contd. .

You don’t need AI to tell you that this is not unconnected to the push to enmesh AI in every facet of the public sector, not least social work. Once again, our collective professional gullibility pressed into service as the useful idiots of corporate power players.

The 'BritCard' is xenophobic techno-totalitarianism straight out of the fetid imagination of Morgan McSweeney, the unelected, six-figure salaried 'most powerful man in politics' and his shady Labour Together think tank that has totally captured the PLP.

RT @AnnieBeale1: Reform have become the rebel offspring off the 2 main parties. A rebel that will air all of the closeted opinions & bigot….

‘We are a global community of education professionals who refuse the call for generative AI (GenAI) adoption in schools and colleges, and reject the narrative of its inevitability.’.

Lastly (for now) the £3800 donation from the Smartphone Free Childhood Campaign (which I support) sheds new light on the video message from MacAlister that recently appeared in SMCC WhatsApp groups. It never fails to disgust me how many MPs’ support can be literally bought. 🤬.

BCG still provides pro bono support and sits on Frontline’s board. Well done Josh for allowing this extractive and immoral $multibillion consultancy further access to, and influence in, UK public services via English social work!

Un-fun fact: MacAlister founded Frontline with Boston Consulting Group, which alarmed many in SW at the time. These concerns have been validated by various examples of unthical, immoral and illegal activity by BCG - most recently BCG has been linked to war crimes in Gaza. 3/.

MacAlister, founder of Frontline and formerly the most connected individual in children’s services, in his first year as MP dutifully doing whatever it takes to advance his political career, inc taking £10ks in donations and voting for welfare cuts. 1/

RT @NC_Renic: I’d like to complain about my AI researched, AI written article getting rejected from your AI reviewed, AI edited journal.

RT @BASW_UK: 🤖 Our Artificial Intelligence hub has a multitude of resources and information relating to use of generative AI in social work….