Article: Instructional Support
In an AI World, Let Disability Access Lead the Way
Inside Higher Ed
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This article is helpful if you're involved in evaluating AI tools or developing policies around AI use, whether in the classroom or at the departmental/institutional level. I appreciate how clearly the authors articulate the need to prioritize students with disabilities in decisions around AI.
In the past few months, much electronic ink has been spilled about the threat artificial intelligence, principally [ChatGPT](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/), poses to education. Some commentators immediately evoke Stephen King levels of terror. They decry the thought of students writing lab reports, law school exam responses and even entire term papers simply by putting the essay prompts into ChatGPT, waiting a few moments and then copying the results.
As we begin to assess the potential impact of these powerful communication technologies on higher education, we encourage faculty and administrators to take a collective deep breath and, when they decide to act, to consider students who have disabilities—not *also*, but *first*. In other words: prioritize universal access.
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