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2 Current Res. J. Soc. Sci. & Human. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/crjssh2 and id is 1 raw text is: Vol. 02, No. (1) 2019, Pg. 01-03 Current Research Journal of Social Sciences jou rnalofsocialsciences.org The Future of Social Work: Seven Pillars of Practice by Brij Mohan NAIRUTI JANI West Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, USA. Q Article History Received: 09 March 2019 Accepted: 18 May 2019 Social Work as a profession confronts many challenges. The one that concerns most is the digital revolution that is fast replacing humans by autonomous machines. Does it add to professional excellence? Answers to this question may vary from people to people. Three decades ago Professor Brij Mohan wrote about the crisis of social work. There was no internet at that time. Social Work was-and continues to be-a helping profession. Helping others is altruism at best provided that the helper is both benevolent and competent. The advocates of artificial intelligence (AI) contend that people are essentially flawed, and computers are infallible and efficient. Drones, self-driven automobiles, and robotic controllers simply demonstrate evolution of human ingenuity. Obsolescence, furthermore, double-downs the human factor. Dr. Mohan believes that social interventions will atrophy in a culture that commoditizes knowledge, health, and mental health-social services. The Description Uberisation of Social Services is inevitable. This is a frightening reality. Alternate facts, in this post-truth era, pose a virtual threat to the fundamental purpose of social work. Social is embedded in the second dimension of modern civilization. In today's One-dimensional culture, confounded by information revolution, definitions and nature of basic institutions have changed. Think of marriage, family, and community. Mohan argues that Al has transmuted the nature of both Social and Work implying the redundancy of what we offer in the field of social work. The mushroom growth of on- CONTACT Nairuti Jani b nairruti@gmail.com 9 West Gulf Coast University, Florida, Fort Myers, USA. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Enviro Research Publishers. This is an ( Open Access article licensed under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY). Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CRJSSH.2.1.01

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