EP 133: AI and Social Work: Balancing Humanity and Technology
NASW Social Work Talks Podcast
When Artificial Intelligence enters social work conversations, we often rush to warn colleagues about the potential harm it could cause—almost as if we’re trying to protect the profession from an existential threat.
This podcast, featuring Dr. Lauri Goldkind, Professor at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services, invites us to face the reality that technology and social work must work together—leveraging strengths, reducing harm, and staying open to new possibilities. There’s no going back. So, what will the future hold? Dr. Goldkind discusses this with our host, social worker Lorrie Appleton.
Professor Laurie Goldkind, Ph.D., MSW
Phone: 914-367-3365
Email: goldkind@fordham.edu
Office: Fordham Westchester
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NIXqA_EAAAAJ&hl=en
December 1, 2025
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Resources:
LGoldkind, L. & Wolf, L. (2019). Selling your soul on the information superhighway: Consenting to services in direct to consumer tele-mental health. Families & Society.
Goldkind, L., & McNutt, J. G. (2019). We could be unicorns: human services leaders moving from managing programs to managing information ecosystems. Human Services Organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance, https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2019.1669758
Goldkind, L. & McNutt, J. G. (2019). Vampires in the technological mist: The Sharing Economy, Employment and the quest for Economic Justice and Fairness in a digital future. Ethics and Social Welfare. DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2018.1512139
Goldkind, L., Thinyane, M., & Choi, M. (2018) Small Data, Big Justice: The Intersection of Data Science, Social Good, and Social Services, Journal of Technology in Human Services, 36:4, 175-178, DOI: 10.1080/15228835.2018.1539369
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