Please don’t get Chat GPT to write your AI policy (16th June 2025)
A few weeks ago, I hosted my first AI: Getting it Right Webinar, bringing together my Churchill Fellowship research on reasonable adjustments and AI, concluding with an insightful Fireside chat with Emma Bennett, Head of Operations for Patchwork Hub, who worked with me through May to audit, write and implement their internal AI policy.
Learning from people like brilliant team at Patchwork Hub, who are now leveraging AI effectively in the workplace in a responsible and accessibility-first way was a great way to see how the theory turns into practice.
It was a great turnout, thank you to everyone who shared that space online, we’re at a crux point where the actions businesses take now on AI implementation will impact culture, accessibility, their people and their profit.
If there is one takeaway I can share with everyone, especially if you didn’t get a chance to attend, it’s to please not write your AI policy using Chat GPT!! (you’d be surprised… or maybe not…) This is so important, as we consider that AI is now one of the most asked for reasonable adjustments in the workplace, and the data and safety risk you need to audit for, measure and navigate on an organisation by organisation basis. There is no one size fits all when it comes to this conversation.
This was a really informative and accessible session that packed in a lot of content. It was perfectly paced and provided insight into how to approach and examine AI within an organisation responsibly, from an ethical and sustainable angle, whilst considering the implementation and adoption of AI as access support and reasonable adjustments. Lots to take away and apply to our ways of working immediately. - Emma Gardner, Co-Founder, With Not For
Using Accessible Language?
Do you spell out your acronyms before using them, so everyone can know what on earth you’re talking about?
What about when your words are being captioned? Did you know that captioning software fails to understand them, so you can end up with some pretty… interesting… words popping up on the screen.
It gets even more confusing when the same acronym is used across different industries to mean different things!
Have you heard of or seen the acronym ‘a11y’? Think that it means ‘ally’? Think again… It actually means ‘accessibility’, because there are 11 letters between a and y… you’re not the only one who is confused…
Join the acronymn and accessible langugae conversation on LinkedIn here.
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This month’s top need-to-know news.
The Design and Disability exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum is now officially open until Sunday 15 February 2026. This exhibition is described as “A celebration and a call to action, Design and Disability showcases the radical contributions of Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and communities to design history and contemporary culture, from the 1940s to now.” You can book tickets here.
Disability Rights UK has launched a new co-production guide, developed in collaboration with a team of individuals, organisations and researchers. This is designed to support the sport and physical activity sector, as well as wider organisations, in providing direction and clarity on what co-production is and what it isn’t.
“Co-production and working in partnership with communities is becoming increasingly expected and is a popular approach in many areas of work. Working in this way can mean you are able to develop more inclusive activities from the beginning without wasting valuable money or resources, develop better relationships with your local community, and therefore improve your reputation, as well as ensuring any work you develop is accessible, relevant and will make a difference.”
Reeves rules out disability benefits cuts U-turn but says rules may be tweaked. It’s not too late to sign this petition. 10,000 signatures mean the government will respond, and we’re getting closer.
Rachel Charlton-Dailey’s book on UK disability activism will be released the same day parliament will vote whether to take away millions of disabled people’s benefits, on 3rd July 2025. Pre-order your copy.
Rachael x