Introduction
As the title indicates, this episode is about using artificial intelligence (AI) to advocate for our legal rights and to learn more about the law. Specifically, I demonstrate using AI to find who to contact when you need to make an ADA request of your local government, having AI draft the substance of an ADA request, and using AI to learn more about the law. All demonstrations were done using ChatGPT. Since some people don’t want to pay for ChatGPT, I demonstrate these tasks in the free version too.
Important Notes on ChatGPT
- ChatGPT is a tool that can make doing things faster and more efficient.
- ChatGPT makes mistakes. Don’t use it to do important work for you unless you can check its results.
- For making an ADA request, ChatGPT doesn’t need to be perfect. It only needs to communicate the basics of a request.
- The paid version of ChatGPT provides much better, faster responses than does the free version.
- The free version will make developing an accommodations request easier, especially if you don’t know how to make an accommodations request.
Why I Won’t Share Exact Prompts
In thinking about it, I decided I couldn’t share exact prompts here as suggestions for you. I can’t share exact prompts here because the responses ChatGPT provides depends on a number of factors including: how often you use it; how often you have asked it to perform tasks similar to what you would be asking it to do when making an accommodations request; and what information you need it to provide. As an example, finding the ADA coordinator for Boston, MA is significantly easier than is finding the ADA coordinator for Leander, TX, as the recording demonstrates.
Since I don’t think providing exact prompts will work, I want to strongly encourage you to try using ChatGPT, whether you have the paid or free version) to help you develop an accommodations request under the ADA.
If you try using ChatGPT to make an accommodations request or to learn more about the law, please let me know. I would appreciate hearing about your experiences.
Important Notes On ChatGPT’s capabilities
- The paid version can create a sample request in different formats, including Word.
- The free version cannot provide sample text in different formats, but you can paste its sample text into the app of your choice.
- The paid version can provide actual names of people holding different positions.
- The free version does not give specific contact information.
- The paid version can be customized to learn how you want it to work.
- The free version cannot be customized.
Conclusion
I strongly believe AI can do much to help all of us make ADA requests and learn more about our legal rights. If you are interested, I urge you to give ChatGPT a try. You may find that by using it you are more comfortable making ADA requests and you may be more willing to demand your access.
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