Booklet
A reference booklet that covers the promises and risks of artificial intelligence for the rights of people with disabilities.
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Written by the French Council of Persons with Disabilities for European Affairs, this document shows how AI removes certain accessibility barriers: image recognition, subtitles, translations, text summaries, or lip reading. It also reminds that these tools, often based on visual and auditory inputs, can remain difficult to use for visually impaired or hard of hearing people.
The booklet emphasizes a central risk: the data feeding the algorithms may include ableist biases, and the "black box" logic makes these systems non-transparent. Disability can then be perceived by the machine as a deviation, which exposes to discrimination.
This perspective fully aligns with the stance of Autonomia and the AutonomIA project: prioritize accessibility from the design stage and involve disabled people in the development of tools. A technology is inclusive only if it truly meets the needs of people, without perpetuating biases.
Source / publisher
French Council of Persons with Disabilities for European Affairs (CFHE), 2024
Link: livret intelligence artificielle et handicap
Hashtags
#AutonomIA, #Autonomia, #AI, #Disability, #Rights, #Accessibility, #Inclusion, #InclusiveInnovation
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