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AI Safety and Disability: What Accessibility Research Reveals About Hallucination, Bias, Privacy, and the Protocols That Do and Don't Exist
Disabled people depend on AI systems they cannot verify, trust AI outputs that fabricate content, and share intimate data with platforms that offer no disability-specific protections. This article examines approximately 135 papers documenting 79 AI harm incidents, the 4.9x improvement in unreliable claim detection when AI uncertainty is surfaced, zero disability-specific privacy protections across 18 AT policies, sycophantic AI behaviour, age stereotyping, career chatbot fabrication, and the protocols that do and do not exist to protect disabled users.