Communicating AI and disability

Gerard Goggin; Andrew Prahl; Kuansong Victor Zhuang

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-14447-9_13

Communicating AI and disability

Gerard Goggin
, Andrew Prahl
, Kuansong Victor Zhuang

The University of Sydney
Nanyang Technological University

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Abstract

This chapter looks at a relatively new area of disability and communication: AI. It contends that discourses, language, and representation of disability in relation to AI need to be understood against the backdrop of evolving ideas of disability and technology. It critiques the dominant social imaginaries of AI and disability, which obscure the flaws in the mainstream ways that autonomous intelligent systems such as AI developed. The chapter concludes that AI and its dominant social imaginaries are in the throes of a severe crisis of legitimacy. Accordingly, alternative imaginaries are discussed as ways to reimagine and remake AI, machine learning, intelligent systems, and other technologies as sustainable, just, and conducive to the goals of extending accessibility, inclusion, participation, and rights for people with disabilities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication
Editors	Michael S. Jeffress, Joy M. Cypher, Jim Ferris, Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock
Place of Publication	Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave-Macmillan
Chapter	13
Pages	205-220
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031144479
ISBN (Print)	9783031144462, 9783031144493
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14447-9_13
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023
Externally published	Yes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

Accessibility
AI
Digital inclusion
Disability
Imaginaries
Inclusive design
Technology

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