This week brought exciting news about how artificial intelligence agents are making technology more accessible for people with disabilities and students learning about the legal field. Agentic AI is a new type of smart software that can do tasks for you across multiple programs, not just answer questions. According to NTT DATA, agentic AI could help the estimated 1.3 billion people worldwide who live with disabilities by doing things like converting images into descriptions, finding important information, and helping them navigate websites and buildings more easily. Unlike older AI tools that just answer what you ask, agentic AI can break down big goals into smaller steps, choose the right tools to use, and adjust its plan if something changes.

Thomson Reuters also made news this week by giving 120,000 law students across the United States free access to professional-grade AI tools like CoCounsel Legal. This is important because it means students can learn with the same technology that lawyers use in real jobs, helping them be ready when they start working. The company says this brings AI to classrooms for the first time in a big way, giving future lawyers better tools and more confidence.

However, experts are warning that companies need to be careful about how they use agentic AI. Privacy and data security are growing concerns, especially because agentic AI needs access to lots of personal information to work properly. Disabled people also worry that AI agents might make choices for them without asking, hide options they think are "too risky," or use outdated information that doesn't represent disabled people fairly. Experts say the best approach is to include disabled people and students in designing these tools from the start, not just testing them at the end.