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Barry Quirk: How to speak truth to power

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By Barry Quirk
| Local Government Chronicle Verified
For council officers, speaking truth to power demands less heroic confrontation than the phrase implies, writes the former chief executive of Kensington & Chelsea RBC. Barry Quirk, former chief executive of Kensington & Chelsea RBC “The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces.
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Barry Quirk: AI – judging the character of its content | Local Government Chronicle (LGC)

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By Barry Quirk
| Local Government Chronicle Verified
Councils face the challenge of honouring the public trust while welcoming innovation, writes the former chief executive of Kensington & Chelsea RBC. Martin Luther King Jr’s call to judge people by “the content of their character” offers a timely lens for evaluating artificial intelligence. While AI lacks human morality, its societal impact compels us to scrutinise its output. Are its biases systemic or arbitrary? Are its algorithms transparent? Does it adhere to ethical guardrails?
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Barry Quirk: Finding your way through the change maze

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By Barry Quirk
| Local Government Chronicle Verified
The drive for transformation is creating a new management discipline in local government, writes the former chief executive of Kensington & Chelsea RBC. The government will shortly publish its approach to transforming the institution of local government in its Devolution White Paper. But councils are not static bodies. They are themselves implementing their own internal change and transformation programmes.
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