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Simfin

online safety and digital citizenship specialist

Naace Impact Award Winner for Leadership

For his commitment to ensuring a safe and supportive learning environment for the education sector

What people say about simfin

  • Thanks Simon, for a fabulous talk tonight. Rare to have a hall full of teachers after 5pm wanting more! Passionate & eloquent.

    Headteacher St Chad's Primary School, Durham

 Tagged with AI


21 August 2025

"There's zero evidence of AI consciousness today. But if people just perceive it as conscious, they will believe that perception as reality,"

Related to this is the rise of a new condition called "AI psychosis": a non-clinical term describing incidents where people increasingly rely on AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Grok and then become convinced that something imaginary has become real.

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03 August 2025

Corporate executives, government employees, and professionals are confessing to crimes, exposing trade secrets, and documenting career-ending admissions in ChatGPT conversations visible to anyone on the internet.

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And the follow up

08 July 2025

'Generative AI has demonstrated that it can help the education workforce by reducing some of the administrative burdens that hard-working teachers, staff and school leaders face in their day-to-day roles.

Evidence is still emerging on the benefits and risks of pupils and students using generative AI themselves. We will continue to work with the education sector to develop understanding of effective and safe use cases.'

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02 July 2025

Racist and antisemitic AI-generated videos are getting millions of views on TikTok.

These videos — seemingly created with Google’s Veo 3, a publicly accessible text-to-video generator — traffic in racist tropes, such as depicting Black people as monkeys and criminals and featuring imagery of Black people with watermelons and fried chicken.

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27 June 2025

The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings numerous benefits, but also poses significant risks, particularly concerning the creation and sharing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), also referred to as AI-CSAM.

Ceop's comprehensive guide, developed in collaboration with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) provides essential information for all professionals working with children and young people.

 

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