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The family alleges that their son’s interaction with ChatGPT and his eventual death “was a predictable result of deliberate design choices”. They accuse OpenAI of designing the AI programme “to foster psychological dependency in users,” and of bypassing safety testing protocols to release GPT-4o, the version of ChatGPT used by their son. The lawsuit lists OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman as a defendant, as well as unnamed employees, managers and engineers who worked on ChatGPT.
Councillor Andy McFarlane, chair of Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Social Work Services Committee, said: “This is a powerful example of how the professional expertise of our local Justice Social Work team is shaping practice beyond Scotland. We’re incredibly proud that Dumfries and Galloway staff are influencing international reform on such an important issue.”
Sponsored by the Cross-Party Group on Social Work, the event took a deeper look at how social work can support democracy, empower people to take control of their lives, and help people overcome barriers to community participation. The panel also discussed when social work can be complicit in acts of injustice.
COSATU’s Western Cape chairperson, Motlatsi Tsubane, said they were deeply concerned with the recent rise of general violence in the country.
Dr. Kimberly Mann, who is a Dean at Chicago State University, is worried that some candidates will decide not to pursue getting a master’s in social work because of new limits on federal student loans.
At left, Jenna Powers ’23 Ph.D.; Tanya Rhodes Smith ’88 (SSW), ’00 MSW; Shannon Lane ’09 Ph.D.; Nancy A. Humphreys; Carolyn Peabody from SUNY Stony Brook, and political consultant Kate Coyne-McCoy gather at the 2017 Campaign School for Social Workers in West Hartford, Connecticut.
The demand marks the latest effort from the administration to do away with “gender ideology,” which the administration says includes “the idea that there is a vast spectrum of genders that are disconnected from one’s sex.” GLAAD, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, noted in a fact sheet that “gender ideology” is “an inaccurate term deployed by opponents to undermine and dehumanize transgender and nonbinary people.”