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Blind people excluded from benefits of AI, says charity

Blind people excluded from benefits of AI, says charity



New president of the Royal Society for Blind Children calls for better design of AI-driven technologyBlind and partially sighted people are being excluded from the benefits of artificial intelligence tools and facing “a new level of discrimination”, the new president of the Royal Society for Blind Children has claimed as he called for better design of everything from video games to AI agents.Tom Pey said existing difficulties for blind children were “now compounded because they’re excluded [and] distanced from their non-disabled peers, because those people can experience games, alternative realities and the AI-driven visual types of technology”. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/25/blind-people-excluded-from-benefits-of-ai-says-charity

Author : Robert Booth UK technology editor

Publish date : 2024-12-25 13:00:11

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