AI ethics arrived in professional life as a set of genuinely hard questions and is departing as a unit of continuing education. The CE credit and the leadership certificate are not superficial additions to a substantive conversation — they are the conversation's dominant form now, and that form has a specific effect: it converts contested claims into competencies that can be assessed, logged, and displayed. What the social worker earns from two approved hours is not a position on whether AI belongs in human services practice but evidence that…