AI Use Statement

Accessible Hive uses artificial intelligence to help create clearer, more accessible, and more usable supports while keeping human judgment, lived experience, safety, and responsibility at the center.

AI is one of my accommodations

I use AI to support areas of work that can create barriers for me, including task initiation, working memory, cognitive overload, organizing complex thoughts, maintaining a clear structure, finding words, editing, and moving from an idea to a finished tool.

It helps me hold onto ideas before they disappear, break large projects into manageable steps, compare options, identify gaps, simplify dense information, troubleshoot code, and communicate more clearly.

AI does not think for me. It reduces friction between my thinking and my ability to express, organize, and complete that thinking.

I describe this as an accessibility accommodation in my personal work. This statement is not intended to claim that every AI tool is legally, clinically, or automatically recognized as a formal accommodation for every person or setting. Accommodations should be individualized.

Support does not make the work less real

Why I use the term augmented intelligence

In medicine, AI is often described as augmented intelligence because its strongest role is to support human capability rather than replace human professionals.

Clinicians may use AI to help organize documentation, recognize patterns, review imaging, retrieve relevant information, reduce repetitive administrative work, and support clinical decisions. The clinician remains responsible for evaluating the information, understanding the patient, applying professional judgment, and making the final decision.

That is also how I approach AI at Accessible Hive: assistance without surrendering responsibility.

Examples from medicine

How AI may support Accessible Hive

• Capturing and organizing ideas before they are lost
• Breaking large projects into smaller, manageable steps
• Drafting and restructuring educational content
• Simplifying dense language for tired parents and caregivers
• Supporting coding, debugging, and website development
• Checking color contrast, headings, labels, and accessibility patterns
• Creating examples, layouts, visual concepts, and early prototypes
• Comparing possible approaches before I make a decision
• Locating research and primary sources for human review
• Editing for clarity, tone, readability, and consistency

What remains human

Accessible Hive is shaped by my nursing education, Family Nurse Practitioner training, clinical experience, homeschooling experience, lived experience, ongoing research, and daily work supporting neurodivergent children and families.

I decide what questions to ask, what problems matter, which ideas fit the mission, what language feels respectful, what tools are useful, what information needs verification, and what ultimately belongs on this website.

AI may help create a first draft. It does not hold the relationship, understand my children, know a family's full circumstances, assume professional accountability, or live with the consequences of a decision.

Human review is required

AI can produce information that sounds confident while being inaccurate, outdated, incomplete, biased, oversimplified, or entirely invented.

I review and revise AI assisted work before publication. Important health, education, disability, safety, legal, or evidence claims should be checked against reliable sources. Tools should also be tested for usability, accessibility, clarity, and real world usefulness.

AI output is treated as material to evaluate, not authority to obey.

Privacy and confidential information

Public AI systems should not be treated as private clinical records. Families should avoid entering names, birth dates, addresses, passwords, identifying photographs, medical records, school records, therapy reports, insurance information, or other sensitive personal information unless they understand and accept how that specific service collects, stores, and uses data.

Accessible Hive does not encourage families to upload confidential information about a child into a public AI tool.

Accessibility requires more than automation

AI may help identify accessibility concerns, simplify content, create alternative formats, support captions, or assist with code. Automated tools cannot prove that a website or resource is fully accessible.

Human testing still matters, including keyboard testing, screen reader testing, zoom and reflow checks, color contrast review, clear language, meaningful labels, and feedback from disabled and neurodivergent users.

Transparency

I believe it is more honest to explain how AI supports my work than to hide its use or pretend that every sentence, line of code, or early draft was created without assistance.

Not every spelling correction or minor edit requires a separate label. When AI plays a meaningful role in developing a tool, article, visual, or website feature, this statement explains the standards I apply: human direction, human review, transparency, privacy, source checking, accessibility, and final human responsibility.

My standard for responsible use

• I remain responsible for what I publish.
• I do not assume confident output is accurate.
• I verify important claims using credible sources.
• I revise language to reflect real people and real situations.
• I do not use AI as a substitute for individualized professional care.
• I avoid entering confidential information into public AI systems.
• I test tools for accessibility and usability.
• I correct content when better evidence becomes available.
• I use technology to expand human capability, not erase human judgment.

Our philosophy

Regulate • See • Try • Do • Reflect