Christian Kerr

A thread of Future of Children's Care podcasts...

'Google has agreed a sweeping deal with the UK government to provide free technology to the public sector from the NHS to local councils...' Define 'free'. theguardian.com/technology/202…

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

🤖 Our Artificial Intelligence hub has a multitude of resources and information relating to use of generative AI in social work practice. Exclusively for BASW members, the hub offers ethical guidance and considerations for practice. Find out more 🔗 basw.co.uk/about-basw/cam…

'AI increases what historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt called “institutional thoughtlessness” – the inability to critique instructions or reflect on consequences.' Implications for social work? thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/june-…

The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education has published a case note and some case summaries relating to AI and academic misconduct. What is clear from the note and summaries is that we educators need to get better at a few things... linkedin.com/posts/christia…

More Samsplaining. Paywalled no less. I'd rather eat my own fist than give money to this privately educated elite education lobbyist and former Gove acolyte and his reputation-laundering new career as a policy pundit.

And yet you’ve already decided the solution is SEN units because a market engagement notice for the procurement just dropped into my inbox. Another thing that an Academy will be commissioned to do.

I’d like Liz Kendall to do a real job, nursing, teaching, cleaning, something low paid where she’s on her feet all day, maybe on call at weekends, no expense account, something physically draining, and I’d like her to do that job, full time, until she is 70. Thank you.

ITV News now reporting on story I've been writing about in recent weeks: "Strict behaviour policy blamed for 'exodus of 500 pupils' from Ark Alexandra Academy in Hastings. itv.com/news/meridian/…

Literally, a solution in search of a problem: OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models Welcome to the era of business-led public services. theguardian.com/technology/202…

“The public sector is viewed as one of the most fertile areas for the implementation of AI” Precisely why social work needs to slow down, exercise caution and remain in control, not be led by promises of putative benefits from vested commercial interests. theguardian.com/technology/202…

“This is yet more evidence of this government’s credulous approach to big tech’s increasingly dodgy sales pitch. Peter Kyle seems bizarrely determined to put the big tech fox in charge of the henhouse when it comes to UK sovereignty.” theguardian.com/technology/202…

Inside the 'death traps' created by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation which was set up with the help of Boston Consulting Group, founding partner of @FrontlineSW. theguardian.com/global-develop…

Is generative AI in social work as 'solution' in search of a problem? linkedin.com/posts/christia…

'Frontline is a children’s charity. Everything we do aims to make life better for children at risk of harm.' thefrontline.org.uk/who-we-are/ Unless you're a child in Gaza. In which case you don't count and it's fine to keep partnering with an org linked to war crimes against you.

'Those hubs, run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, were in part the brainchild of the Boston Consulting Group, the same management consultants caught this month plotting to turn Gaza into Trump’s Palestinian-free “Riviera of the Middle East”.' thefrontline.org.uk/support-us/cor…