AI Recourse

The ability of individuals negatively affected by AI-driven decisions to challenge, appeal, or seek correction of those decisions. For people with disabilities, AI recourse is particularly critical because AI systems frequently make consequential decisions about welfare benefits, employment, education, and healthcare. Research shows that recourse mechanisms are often absent, inaccessible, or inadequate — in most documented cases of AI harm to disabled people, no corrective action was taken against the offending system. Effective recourse must be seamlessly available, accessible to people with diverse disabilities, and designed as part of the deployment ecosystem rather than added as an afterthought.