• Dr. Neha Nagar

Artificial Intelligence has emerged not only as a technological revolution but also as a major cultural metaphor reshaping how humanity imagines identity, embodiment, and ability. Within contemporary literature, cinema, and digital storytelling, AI often becomes a narrative device through which society projects its anxieties and hopes regarding disability. This study examines the representation of disability within AI-centered narratives and the portrayal of AI itself as a metaphorical disabled figure—imperfect, incomplete, lacking emotion, lacking embodiment, or struggling to perform normative functions. The paper further investigates how speculative fiction, from early cybernetic literature to advanced posthumanist writings, uses AI to question what counts as “ability,” “normalcy,” and “human value.” Drawing on disability studies, critical posthumanism, cyborg theory, and narrative analysis, this paper argues that AI narratives simultaneously reinforce and challenge ableist assumptions: they reinforce them through tropes of “fixing,” “curing,” or “perfecting” bodies, and challenge them through imaginations of hybrid, augmented, or non-normative embodiments. By analyzing key works from literature (e.g., William Gibson, Octavia Butler, E.M. Forster, Martha Wells), film (Ex Machina, Her, The Matrix), and digital fiction, the paper uncovers how AI stories construct disability as both a problem to be solved and a site of radical possibility. Ultimately, the study demonstrates that AI narratives offer a unique mirror through which disability becomes reinterpreted not as deficit but as diversity—inviting new understandings of humanity beyond the constraints of normative embodiment.

: Disability representation, Artificial intelligence (AI), Algorithmic Ableism , Posthumanism, Cyborg theory, Narrative Prosthesis, Embodiment, Assistive technology, Technoculture, Neurodiversity

"Disability Representation in AI Narratives & Literature", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 11, page no.e335-e345, November-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2511442.pdf

"Disability Representation in AI Narratives & Literature", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 11, page no. ppe335-e345, November-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2511442.pdf