6 papers
Building and Governing AI Systems: Advancing Social Workers' Roles across the Technology Industry, Human Service Organizations, and Policy Institutions
Nari Yoo, Daphne Watkins, Brian Perron +2
Artificial intelligence is moving the technology sector into domains social work has long served, including crisis response, mental health care, benefits administration, vocational…
From Job Postings to Curriculum Decisions: Using AI to Generate Workforce Intelligence for MSW Program Planning
Barbara S. Hiltz, Bryan G. Victor, Brian E. Perron
Social work programs lack systematic methods to align curricula with employer expectations, typically relying on advisory input and alumni surveys rather than direct analysis of wo…
Validation of a Small Language Model for DSM-5 Substance Category Classification in Child Welfare Records
Brian E. Perron, Dragan Stoll, Bryan G. Victor +3
Background: Recent studies have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can perform binary classification tasks on child welfare narratives, detecting the presence or absenc…
AI-Assisted Curation of Conference Scholarship: Compiling, Structuring, and Analyzing Two Decades of Presentations at the Society for Social Work and Research
Brian Perron, Bryan Victor, Zia Qi
Purpose: This study developed a comprehensive database of presentation abstracts from the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Annual Conference and examined patterns in res…
Human services organizations and the responsible integration of AI: Considering ethics and contextualizing risk(s)
Brian E. Perron, Lauri Goldkind, Zia Qi +1
This paper examines the responsible integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in human services organizations (HSOs), proposing a nuanced framework for evaluating AI applications…
AI and Cultural Context: An Empirical Investigation of Large Language Models' Performance on Chinese Social Work Professional Standards
Zia Qi, Brian E. Perron, Miao Wang +3
Objective: This study examines how well leading Chinese and Western large language models understand and apply Chinese social work principles, focusing on their foundational knowle…