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When AI Becomes Assistive Technology

September 24, 2026 by Basil Puglisi Leave a Comment

When AI Becomes Assistive Technology: Artificially Intelligent Disability Assistance (AIDA)

A blind professional asks AI to describe a chart. The paper asks whether that use is assistive technology.

This working paper names the function Artificially Intelligent Disability Assistance (AIDA) and gives a three-prong test for when a use of general-purpose AI qualifies. It runs seven cases, from blindness and speech loss to post-traumatic stress, and it names the case the test excludes and the dissent it has to answer.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Risk, AI Thought Leadership, Policy & Research, Thought Leadership Tagged With: accessibility, AI assistive technology, AI Governance, AIDA, Artificially Intelligent Disability Assistance, assistive technology, Augmented Intelligence, Checkpoint-Based Governance, disability, disability inclusion, functional capability, generative AI, reasonable accommodation

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