PathAble AI Media & News

Articles, podcast episodes, and newsletters from PathAble AI on artificial intelligence, trust, automation, and disability employment services. Most articles are written by founder and CEO Burt Brooks.

Articles

• The Documentation Tax. Every hour a direct support professional spends documenting is an hour not spent supporting. Burt Brooks on who the paperwork is really written for, and what has to change before AI can safely take any of it.
• A Dozen Broken Links and a PDF From 2019. Moving to a new state should not mean starting your disability services search from zero. Why the information almost always exists, why families still cannot find it, and what we built across 3,143 counties in response.
• The Deadline That Moved, and the One That Never Existed. DOJ pushed the Title II web accessibility dates back a year, and the extension is already under challenge. Meanwhile Section 504 has required accessible programs since 1977, with no deadline coming.
• Who Gets to Benefit from AI?. The disability community has been quietly benefiting from AI for years — text-to-speech, predictive communication, autonomous vehicles. Burt Brooks on why the loudest AI critics miss the people who need this technology most.
• Navigating Neurodiversity: Self-Advocacy on College Campuses. College is the first place most people are expected to advocate for themselves. For neurodivergent students, the gap between expectation and preparation is where they fall through — and what campuses can do about it.
• The Death of 'Spot the Deepfake'. Why community trust is the only way forward in an AI-saturated world. A perspective on trust, disability employment, and the future of human verification.
• The Automation Consideration: Keeping Autonomy and Agency in the Age of AI. Where does automation end and the agency of the individual begin? A perspective on AI, disability employment, and building tools that augment rather than replace.
• Will AI Boost Disability Employment? Or Will Layoffs Hit This Community Hardest?. Layoffs are rising and AI is reshaping work. Here's why people with disabilities stand to lose the most — and how PathAble is using AI to empower, not replace, the staff and agencies that support them.
• Change Management in the Age of AI: Keeping Disabled Voices in the Conversation. AI is reshaping work, services, and trust faster than any prior shift. Here's how to keep people with disabilities in front of the wave, not underneath it.
• Why Direct Support Staff Aren't Using the Tech That Could Help Them. The adoption gap in human services tech isn't a technology problem — it's a trust, training, and communication problem. Here's how to close it.

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