AI and social work

AI-Powered Social Bots

This paper gives an overview of impersonation bots that generate output in one or possibly, multiple modalities. We also discuss rapidly advancing areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence that could lead to frighteningly powerful new multi-modal social bots. Our main conclusion is that most commonly known bots are one dimensional (i.e., chatterbot), and far from deceiving serious i...

Social Computing: An AI Perspective

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Psychoanalysis and Social Work

to social work. The first part of the book consists of basic psychoanalytical theory with an emphasis on ego psychology. The rest of the book consists of ten chapters written by different psychoanalysts demonstrating how psychoanalytical knowledge can be applied usefully in various fields of social work. The theoretical part of the book gives a concise account of psychoanalytical theory and it ...

Language and Social Work

Social work and speciesism.

Jane Addams (1940) perhaps the most prominent of the founders of modern social work, describing the impetus to dedicate herself to the welfare of others and develop Hull House, wrote, "We had been to see a bull fight rendered in the most magnificent Spanish style, where greatly to my surprise and horror, I found that I had seen, with comparative indifference, five bulls and many more horses kil...