1st Edition
AI and the Disruption of the Social Challenges for Social Work Education and Practice
List of Tables
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 P. MOXLEY
Chapter Four: Can Artificial Intelligence be Controlled? A Social Science Perspective
HERMANN ASTLEITNER
Chapter Five: The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), 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, JUAN‑JESÚS VISCARRET, AND MARÍA‑JESÚS ÚRIZ
Chapter Thirteen: A 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
SEOUNGHOON 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
MARÍA 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 The Challenge of Right‑wing Nationalist Populism for Social Work (2020), Post‑Pandemic Welfare and Social Work: Reimagining the ‘New Normal’ (2024), and AI and the Disruption of Welfare (2026), 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 The Challenge of Right‑wing Nationalist Populism for Social Work (2020), Post‑Pandemic Welfare and Social Work: Re‑imaging the ‘New Normal’ (2024), The Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms in Social Work (2024), and AI and the Disruption of Welfare (2026). She is the current editor‑in‑chief of IASSW Social Dialogue: https://socialdialogue.online/.
