aceA kind of magic? Artificial intelligence-assisted recording: developing principles for an AI-informed social work curriculum
The deployment of AI tools in social work practice settings is advancing at a pace that social work education has yet to match. Drawing on baseline findings from an independent evaluation of Magic Note, an AI-assisted recording tool deployed across a Scottish Local Authority social work department, this paper uses the empirical experiences of a workforce encountering AI in practice as a window into the underdeveloped implications for qualifying education. The evaluation, which involved 152 practitioners surveyed…
Deployment of Magic Note AI-assisted recording in a Scottish Local Authority social work department provided administrative relief and efficiency for practitioners.
Practitioners reported tensions that AI assistance could erode professional judgment, reflective value of writing, and create deskilling risk and ethical complexity.
Findings are baseline results from a single Scottish Local Authority deployment, limiting generalizability to other practice settings and to longer-term curriculum outcomes.
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- Peer-reviewedSocial Work Education2026-05-11
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0172, v1: “A kind of magic? Artificial intelligence-assisted recording: developing principles for an AI-informed social work curriculum.” Truvace, 2026-07-13. /record/TRV-2026-0172 (accessed at citation time). sha256 bc74b417977cac68…
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