Disability +
Labor in the
Age of AI
North Star Vision Memo

Capitalism is disabling—a truth we know deep in our bodies as disabled workers, no matter what kind of labor we perform. As we face the rise of AI, we also face a new power shift that exacerbates this reality, moving power away from workers and into the hands of billionaires and even our world’s first trillionaire. So what now?

Over the last year, Disability Culture Lab worked with nearly a dozen brilliant movement leaders, academics, and artists at the intersection of labor, disability, and tech to answer that question.

The result is the Disability + Labor in the Age of AI North Star Vision Memo, which explores what we are facing and envision what winning looks like at the intersection of labor and disability in the age of AI.

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Cover of the Disability and Labor in the Age of AI North Star Vision Memo. It features a photo of a person with dwarfism sitting in a motorized wheelchair in front of a laptop on a desk.
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The U.S. Political
Model of Disability

The U.S. Political Model of Disability is a new model of disability developed during Disability Culture Lab’s Disability Community and Movement North Star Visioning that puts words to a disability pathway that many people who have already been pushed to the margins follow. Read on to learn more.

The Definition
All About the Model

Organizational Signers

  • Crip the Law

  • Detroit Community Technology Project 

  • Detroit Disability Power

  • Disability Culture Lab

  • New Disabled South

  • Autistic People of Color Fund

  • Black Remote She LLC

  • Blue Agate Creative

  • Borealis Philanthropy

  • Cast Iron Consulting

  • Collective for Racial & Disability Justice

Individual Signers

  • Sanzari Aranyak 

  • Kim Bryant

  • Kristin Burgard

  • Keidra Chaney

  • M Eilo

  • Meier Galblum Haigh

  • Crystal Lee

  • Mandy Mitchell

  • Ian Moura

  • Jennae Petersen

  • Kenrya Rankin

  • Damien P. Williams

  • Jasmine Williams-Jacobs

  • Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhangsūn Brown