AI is the first assistive technology that can translate barriers into access at scale, or bypass the people it claims to serve. That fault line is where I work.

I’m a Staff Accessibility Engineer and a disabled person who uses AI every day, which is why I’m unwilling to look away from its power or its capacity for harm. My career wound through a biopsychology lab, a literature degree, and a longstanding interest in philosophy of mind before landing in enterprise accessibility. The systems most likely to harm disabled users aren’t the obviously broken ones. They’re the ones that look like compliance.

My argument: Augmentation over automation. AI doesn’t pass the awareness test and it has consequences for real people navigating real interfaces.

I write about disability, consciousness, AI ethics, and what gets erased when humans leave the loop. Looking for collaborators, sparring partners, and conference programs working on these questions.