Opening Remarks & Keynote: Artificial Intelligence in Social Work: Emerging Ethical and Risk Management Issues
Includes a Live Web Event on 11/06/2025 at 11:45 AM (EST)
11:45am - 12:00pm Opening Remarks
12:00pm - 1:00pm Keynote
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in social work to conduct client risk assessments, assist people in crisis, strengthen prevention efforts, record clinical notes, identify systemic biases in the delivery of social services, provide social work supervision and education, and predict social worker burnout and service outcomes, among other uses. This presentation will examine cutting-edge ethical issues related to social workers’ use of AI; apply relevant ethical standards; and outline elements of a strategy for social workers’ ethical use of AI. Dr. Frederic Reamer will examine 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, and misrepresentation; algorithmic bias and unfairness; and use of evidence-based AI tools.
Frederic G. Reamer, PhD
Professor Emeritus
School of Social Work, Rhode Island College
Frederic Reamer is on the faculty of the School of Social Work, Rhode Island College. He chaired the national task force that wrote the NASW Code of Ethics and served on the code revision task force. Dr. Reamer chaired the task force sponsored by NASW, ASWB, CSWE, and CSWA that developed standards governing social workers’ use of technology. He has lectured nationally and internationally on social work and professional ethics. In 2016 Dr. Reamer was named a NASW Social Work Pioneer.
