AXSChat Podcast
AXSChat Podcast
Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh, Neil Milliken
Building Disability Inclusion Into AI Policy And Practice
29 minutes Posted Apr 21, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
Welcome To Access Chat
What The LEND Fellowship Teaches
A Chatbot For Medicaid Waivers
AI Policy Risks For Assistive Tech
Waitlists That Harm Families
Why Neurodivergent Users Adopt AI
AAC And Smart Home Breakthroughs
AI That Helps People Share Ideas
AI Literacy And Misinformation Pressure
Guardrails Plus Incentives For Accessibility
Owning A Disabled Professional Identity
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The scariest part of AI isn’t the sci-fi stuff, it’s how fast it can change the tools people already rely on to live and communicate. We sit down with Dr Julie Eshleman, a postdoctoral researcher working across Georgia Tech and Georgia State, to connect the dots between AI-powered assistive technology, Medicaid waiver systems, and the policies that will decide what comes next for disabled people and their families. Julie breaks down her participatory action research project building a RAG mo...