The Cutting-Edge Issue of Social Workers' Increasing Use of Artificial Intelligence, with an Emphasis on the Ethical Challenges

NASW National Webinar

The Cutting-Edge Issue of Social Workers' Increasing use of Artificial Intelligence, with an Emphasis on the Ethical Challenges

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 (12 – 3 pm ET)

Presenter: Frederic G. Reamer, Ph.D.

VIP Early Registration for SPS Members: Registration opens first to SPS members for this webinar. This early registration is available February 15 - March 1, 2025. SPS members are encouraged to register during the VIP early registration to help ensure their seats. After March 2, registration will open to non-SPS NASW members and non-NASW members for a fee.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in the behavioral health professions. AI is being used to conduct client risk assessments; provide resources to clients; assist people in crisis; strengthen prevention efforts; document clinical services; interact with clients using social robots; identify systemic biases in the delivery of behavioral health services; provide professional education and supervision; and predict practitioner burnout and service outcomes, among other uses. Ethical standards related to AI are evolving.

This webinar will examine cutting-edge ethical issues related to social workers’ use of AI, apply relevant ethical standards, and outline key elements of a strategy for practitioners’ ethical use of AI. Join Dr. Frederic Reamer as he examines ethical issues and risks related to informed consent and client autonomy; privacy and confidentiality; transparency; potential client misdiagnosis; client abandonment; client surveillance; plagiarism, dishonesty, fraud, deception, and misrepresentation; algorithmic bias and unfairness; and use of evidence-based AI tools.

Objectives:

• Identify the ways in which artificial intelligence is being used in social work.
• Identify ethical issues and challenges associated with the use of artificial intelligence in social work.
• Apply relevant ethics standards and develop ethics-informed policies and protocols to protect clients and practitioners.

Cost: SPS Members: Free / NASW Members: $60 / Non NASW Members: $80