Explore how advancing A.I. is transforming human service practice and elevating new ethical considerations. Learn how these shifts affect clients, communities, and the evolving nature of human connection.
| Series | Ethics and Boundaries |
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| Next Session | Dec. 3, 2026 | 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
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Exploring the Ethical Impact of A.I. on Clients, Families, and Practice
As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves, human service professionals face new ethical questions and emerging challenges in their work with clients and communities. This course explores how current and future A.I. technologies— from everyday tools to generative and advanced systems—shape decision making, client relationships, and professional roles. Participants will examine moral considerations in using A.I. to address complex social issues while protecting individual rights, as well as the impact these tools may have on the families and populations they serve. The course will also consider how A.I. can support professionals in becoming more effective and responsive in their work, while raising important questions about serving individuals whose realities increasingly include relationships with machines—and whether those relationships are experienced as real, artificial, or something in between.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the varying forms of Artificial Intelligence's impact on the human population.
- Examine and define the impact of A.I. as it relates to the role of the helping professions.
- Develop an ethical framework related to various A.I. technologies and consider the moral and ethical implications on human and social problems.
- Understand the global impact of A.I. and our role in placing boundaries around the ethical use of A.I., and in considering effective strategies in meeting human needs.
- Demonstrate understanding of the Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct (MPSW 20), ethical principles, and boundaries applied to specific ethical dilemmas when using Artificial Intelligence.
This program meets Wisconsin Ethics and Boundaries continuing education requirements for human service professionals.
Who should attend
Human service professionals such as social workers, professional counselors, therapists, and psychologists.
Instructors
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Dana Johnson from Wisconsin is a career social worker (Licensed MSW), practicing in senior level management in state government, county human services, an educator in higher education, and operating a consulting and professional development firm. His experience includes child welfare practice, policy, and reform; transformational organizational leadership and culture change, supervision of teams, continuous quality improvement, ethics and boundaries theory, and dynamic equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts across micro, mezzo, and macro systems.