Artificial Intelligence has captured imaginations and enabled new realities. People are leveraging it to reshape education, work, and communication. Will we harness it to enhance accessibility, agency, and social inclusion for people with disabilities, or reinforce existing inequalities? Through storytelling and an intersectional lens, Lawrence Weru explores the crucial roles we play in ensuring AI fulfills its promise of improving lives for everyone.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and analyze at least three potential opportunities and three potential challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for people with disabilities across different domains such as education, employment, and social services.
- Explain the significance of an intersectional perspective in understanding the impact of AI on people with disabilities, recognizing how the intersection of disability with other identities (such as race, gender, and Indigenous status) can lead to compounded advantages or disadvantages in the context of AI technologies and their deployment.
- Articulate at least two concrete actions that professionals in the disability field (including educators, employers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers) can take to promote the inclusive and equitable development and implementation of AI technologies for people with disabilities, mitigating potential harms and maximizing benefits.
Speaker(s)
Weru