Social workers face growing pressure to adopt generative artificial intelligence platforms and to use GAI in their teaching. Often these pressures are not accompanied by the time and strategy to clarify what problems AI should solve or how new tools align with social work values. In this talk we will explore Gen AI from the perspective of hype, harm and hope, considering how GAI should be used in social work practice and how to focus on attention from specific products to what AI can actually do. The presentation aims to introduce accountable AI integration as a component of  professional social work practice. Practical implications for social workers, social work students and social work educators will be discussed, as well as guiding questions to consider prior to an AI adoption. 

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CSWE's Council on the Role and Status of Women in Social Work Education

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Learning Objectives

  1. After this talk participants will be able to identify common AI capabilities that may be relevant to social work practice. 
  2. After this talk participants will be able to describe the difference between AI hype and the reality of AI adoptions.
  3. After this talk, participants will have beginning discernment skills necessary for evaluating how an AI platform aligns with their values and ethics

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Lauri Goldkind, PhD

Dr. Goldkind is a professor at Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Dr. Goldkind’s current research interests include: public interest technologies, AI adoption and governance in the nonprofit, social care and social work sectors. She has a robust network of community partners locally, nationally and internationally, including the International Federation of Settlement Houses and United Neighborhood Houses. Since 2023, Goldkind has presented and facilitated workshops on AI in the social work and nonprofit sectors across the United States and in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Ireland, Scotland, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Goldkind holds a PhD from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University, and an M.S.W. from SUNY Stony Brook with a concentration in planning, administration, and research. She is a mother to two amazing high school students and married to one very generous and kind husband.