Artificial Intelligence and Disability: How Can AI Promote Inclusion and Equity for Disabled People?

Artificial Intelligence and Disability: How Can AI Promote Inclusion and Equity for Disabled People?

Date: 30 April 2025 (Wed)

Time: 6:30pm – 7:30pm

Mode: face to face and Zoom

Venue: 11/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Abstract:

Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered to hold great promise for health research and care in a wide range of applications. This promise is often assumed to extend into the realm of disability as well, especially in the development of assistive technologies that incorporate AI and automated decision making (ADM) to improve their function. At the same time, the use of AI in the provision of disability services can also present challenges. These challenges are often due to lack of in-depth knowledge of people with disability, and sometimes to the ableism of society that perpetuates bias and discrimination through the development and use of AI technologies. In this presentation I discuss some theoretical and empirical work carried out at the Disability Innovation Institute at the University of New South Wales, that examines the views of people with disability about AI-supported technologies and considers some possible solutions.

About the Speaker:
Prof Jackie Leach Scully
Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Disability Innovation Institute at UNSW

Co-organisers:
Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, HKU
Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, HKUMed
Equality Rights, HKU Law