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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

BIZARRE: Social workers in england begin using ai system to assist their work - What They Never Told You

A person uses an iPhone
The tool sits on social workers’ phones and writes almost instant summaries. Photograph: Valiantsin Suprunovich/Alamy

Hundreds of social workers in England have begun using an artificial intelligence system that records conversations, drafts letters to doctors and proposes actions that human workers might not have considered.

Councils in Swindon, Barnet and Kingston are among seven now using the AI tool that sits on social workers’ phones to record and analyse face-to-face meetings. The Magic Notes AI tool writes almost instant summaries and suggests follow-up actions, including drafting letters to GPs. Two dozen more councils have or are piloting it.

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