1st Edition
AI and the Disruption of the Social Challenges for Social Work Education and Practice
List of tables
About the editors
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: AI and the Disruption of the Social: An Introduction
Goetz Ottmann and Carolyn Noble
Chapter Two: Epistemic Agency and the Politics of Social Work
Goetz Ottmann
Chapter Three: Social Work in the Hypermodern: Advancing Humanism in the Age of Smart Machines
David Moxley
Chapter Four: Can Artificial Intelligence be Controlled? A Social Science Perspective
Hermann Astleitner
Chapter Five: The Politics of Information Communications Technologies (ICT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and implications for social work, justice, and advocacy
Carolyn Noble
Chapter Six: Critical Scholarship in the Age of Large Language Models
Russell Shuttleworth
Chapter Seven: AI and the corporate university: constructing new imaginaries or reinscribing old stratifications?
Sharon Aris and Georgia Van Toorn
Chapter Eight: AI and Indigenous Knowledge Holders: When Culture Becomes Security. Cultural Security and Epistemic Sovereignty in the Sámi Context
Barbara Schabowska
Chapter 9: Masculinism and Gender Binarism in AI: How Artificial Intelligence Reproduces Patriarchy in the Digital World
Bob Pease
Chapter Ten: The helping relationship in new online relational spaces: AI chatbots and the reconfiguration of trust in social work
Mara Sanfelici and Luca Pavani
Chapter Eleven: Care, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Ethics: New Opportunities and Challenges for Social Workers
Eleni Papouli
Chapter Twelve: Bridging Worlds: Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT and Social Work Ethics
Alberto Ballestero, Jesús Viscarret, and María-Jesús Úriz
Chapter Thirteen: Cruel Kindness? The Limitations of Logic-Based Artificial Intelligence in Navigating Ethical Dilemmas within the Human Services Context
Clement Chihota and Tariro Chihota
Chapter Fourteen: Social Work Ethics and Generative AI
Michael Balkow
Chapter Fifteen: Virtual Encounters in Bereavement Care: Ethical and Clinical Perspectives on AI and Virtual Reality
Seunghood Oh, Ranaa Almasoudi, and Catriona Mayland
Chapter Sixteen: Bias in the Machine: How Artificial Intelligence Perpetuates Ableism in Society
Simona Aginskaitė and Eglė Šumskienė
Chapter Seventeen: Artificial Intelligence between the lighthouse and the storm: potentials and risks for Social Work
Renata Nunes, Melisa Campana, David Alonso González, and Andrés Arias Astray
Chapter Eighteen: The Use of AI-Based Counselling. Professional and Ethical Implications for Social Work
Monika Alamdar-Niemann and Sabrina Heinl-Vako
Chapter Nineteen: What’s Wrong with AI as a Human Rights Teacher for Social Workers? Reflections on a Teaching Innovation Project in Spain
Inés Martínez-Herrero, Francisco J. Lorenzo-Gilsanz, and Sergio Barciela- Fernández
Index
Biography
Goetz Ottmann is a Senior Lecturer at Federation University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of several books, book chapters, and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. His research interests include critical social theory, authoritarian ‘welfare’, social policy, and aged and disability care. His latest co-authored books include (2024) Post-Pandemic Welfare and Social Work: Reimagining the ‘New Normal’, and (2026) AI and the Disruption of Welfare, all published by Routledge.
Carolyn Noble is a Professor Emerita at ACAP, Sydney and Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of several books, chapters and peer reviewed articles. Her latest co-authored and co-edited books include (2020) The Challenge of Right-wing Nationalist Populism for Social Work, (2024) Post-Pandemic Welfare and Social Work: Re-imaging the ‘New Normal’, (2026) AI and the Disruption of Welfare. She is the current editor-in-chief of IASSW Social Dialogue: https://socialdialogue.online/.
