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Short abstract:

This paper will centre questions of disability, race, class, technology and society in relation to recent advances in technology, such as AI, ADM, and generative AI and its impact on disabled people from culturally and racially marginalised groups living in Australia and Germany.

Long abstract:

This paper will centre questions of disability, race, class, technology and society in relation to recent advances in technology, such as AI, ADM, and generative AI and its impact on disabled people from culturally and racially marginalised groups living in Australia and Germany. The comparative approach taken will sit at the intersections of Disability Studies & Critical Race Theory (DisCrit), and the colonialities of rule across divergent (post, de, anti, settler) colonial regimes. The paper will explore and examine core questions of agency in everyday life for highly marginalised disabled people as they are often forced to utilise advance technologies to navigate inherent structures of racism, classism and ableism, particularly when interfacing with the welfare state as it continues to digitise its citizen interface on the neoliberal principles of self- sufficiency, responsibilisation and austerity. We argue that everyday technologies offer a complex interplay of individual freedom, a minimisation of inter-personal stigmatisation while simultaneously, they can potentially reinforce a risk of intersectional vulnerabilities by collecting personal data that can be utilised for coercion and surveillance.