Living in an Algorithmic Error: A Disabled Cyborg Perspective on AI

Laura Forlano

This article offers a disabled perspective on the ways in which AI systems (and their failures) are experienced by offering an account of living with a “smart” medical device for over ten years. By bringing together autoethnographic vignettes with transcribed data from machines and examples from crip making practice, the article illustrates the ways in which the body is rendered into both a hopeful and harmful testbed. The article proposes that the field of design take a “critical data studies” perspective to better understand the social consequences of technology.