This book with 22 chapters from eminent scholars, focuses on the role of AI-enabled technology in surveillance and coercive ‘welfare’ bringing into view how advanced technology is used to shift the boundaries between welfare, penal, and carceral state and its very real impact on social work education and practice.
This book with 22 chapters from eminent scholars, focuses on the role of AI-enabled technology in surveillance and coercive ‘welfare’ bringing into view how advanced technology is used to shift the boundaries between welfare, penal, and carceral state and its very real impact on social work education and practice.
It focuses on to the way emerging digital technologies, often combined under the heading Artificial Intelligence (AI), are fundamentally changing our lifeworld and the social and economic divisions within it. These technologies, which dominate every aspect of our lives harbour tremendous emancipatory potential. However, they also create a digital infrastructure that can and has been used as a new instrument of oppression. Contributors to this book seek to uncover and understand how new digital technologies are used in ways that lead to new vulnerabilities and oppressive outcomes that affect the welfare state, social workers, and their clients. Contributors to this book are located across the globe in countries with vastly different welfare regimes that bring into view considerable limitations but also a breadth of possibilities for emancipatory social work.
It will be of interest to all scholars, students and professionals working in social work and social welfare.
1.AI and the disruption of welfare: Introduction. 2.Managerialism on
Steroids: The rise of Artificial Intelligence. 3.The rise of the digitally
enabled Carceral State and impact on social work. 4.A critical reflection on
the changing capacity of surveillance in digitally mediated welfare services.
5.Automated algorithmic governance in the human services. 6.Automated
algorithms, epistemological shifts, and the erosion of fundamental legal and
ethical principles in the social services. 7.Even if Elon Musk was a social
worker: Coercive past and technological futures in social work in
Lithuania, UK and Spain. 8.Ghost in the cell? Artificial Intelligence in
prisoners rehabilitation: Automation vs. individuality? 9.Data justice: The
rise of a movement? 10.Critical responses to the impacts of generative
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on social work education and
practice. 11.Resisting the enchantment of LLMs: Ethical implications for
social work practice, research, and education - a case study. 12.AI, embedded
biases, ethical challenges, and feminist counter discourse. 13.Decolonising
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education: A social work perspective.
14.Navigating ethical challenges in AI-enhanced Virtual Reality for social
work education. 15.Co-designing culturally responsive simulation based
learning: AI, First Peoples knowledges, and the implications for social work
field education. 16.The digital dimension of Violence Against Women:
Conceptualising and integrating Technology-Facilitated Abuse (TFA) in social
work education. 17.The challenges and impacts of digital intimate partner
violence for social work. 18.Bridging the digital divide through
developmental social work. 19.Digital vulnerability, Artificial Intelligence
and coercive practices: Contributions from digital social work. 20.Social
work/AI entanglements: Educating for a critical relationship-based ethics in
social work. 21.Preparing social workers to resist coercive AI through social
work education. 22.Social work education and Artificial Intelligence:
Opportunities, challenges, and dilemmas.
Goetz Ottmann, PhD, is a senior lecturer at Federation University, Melbourne. He is the author of five books, numerous book chapters, and many reports and peer-reviewed journal articles.
Carolyn Noble, PhD, is a Professor Emerita at ACAP, Sydney, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of several books and many book chapters and peer-reviewed articles.
