AI and the Disruption of Welfare

This book with 22 chapters from eminent scholars, focuses on the role of AI-enabled technology in surveillance and coercive ‘welfare’ bringing into view how advanced technology is used to shift the boundaries between welfare, penal, and carceral state and its very real impact on social work education and practice. It focuses on to the way emerging digital technologies, often combined under the heading Artificial Intelligence (AI), are fundamentally changing our lifeworld and the social and econo