{"id":450411,"date":"2026-09-28T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450411\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:30:08","slug":"ai-stokes-fears-but-can-be-a-boon-for-the-disabled-community-heres-how-else-its-impacting-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450411\/","title":{"rendered":"AI stokes fears, but can be a boon for the disabled community. Here&#8217;s how else it&#8217;s impacting Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Texas has become the Wild West for data centers, Texas Standard is exploring what all that infrastructure is fueling by digging into the possibilities and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll explore the life-changing promises AI offers people with disabilities, and we\u2019ll weigh that against overwhelming privacy concerns. We\u2019ll take you into a robotics lab where researchers are still falling short of replicating the human body. And we\u2019ll ask whether artificial intelligence is \u2014 or could be \u2014 conscious.<\/p>\n<p>AI development is moving quickly, and the outlook will be different tomorrow than it is right now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/specials.texasstandard.org\/texas-ai-accessibility-threats\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The New Wild West: Texans on the AI Frontier<\/a> aims to capture an important moment in Texas \u2014 and human \u2014 history when we\u2019re grappling with how to responsibly use technology with untold possibilities while still prioritizing people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Texas has become the Wild West for data centers, Texas Standard is exploring what all that infrastructure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-450411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}