A governance and risk issue for SGBs and executive teams
Deepfakes and AI-generated manipulation are no longer fringe tech. In a school environment, a learner or staff member’s face can be pulled from a sports photo, a class video, or a social media post and inserted into content designed to humiliate, sexualise, threaten or incite ridicule. The speed of sharing is what catches schools off guard. So is the pressure on leadership to respond decisively before speculation becomes the story.
For school governing bodies and executive teams, an abusive deepfake is not simply a discipline matter. It is a governance and risk event. It impacts duty of care, wellbeing, privacy and personal information handling, workplace safety and community trust. It also tests whether your policies and response processes are fit for modern threats.
