Accessibility & Inclusion Weekly AI News

October 20 - October 28, 2025

This weekly update highlights how agentic AI—a new type of artificial intelligence that can work independently to solve problems—is changing how companies support people with disabilities and help workers. The biggest news comes from Salesforce, which used agentic AI to help people at its Dreamforce conference. Salesforce's Agentforce answered 43% of questions from people who needed accessibility support, like asking where quiet areas were or when shuttles left. This freed up human helpers to focus on harder problems that needed a real person's touch. However, workers around the world are excited but worried about agentic AI. A recent survey found that 84% of workers want to use AI agents in their jobs because they think it will make them work faster and easier. But 56% of these same workers worry that AI agents might take their jobs away. Many workers are learning about agentic AI on their own time instead of getting training from their bosses. In other countries like France and Germany, safety experts are warning that agentic AI needs strong security protections to keep it from being hacked or doing bad things. The big picture is that agentic AI can help make workplaces and events more inclusive and accessible for everyone, but companies need to train workers and be honest about how AI will change jobs.

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