ABSTRACT
This chapter critically engages with Donna Haraway's figure of the cyborg, which for the last four decades has enjoyed almost unbroken popularity in feminist, intersectional gender approaches to technologies. The cyborg is also productive for queer-feminist perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI), as it suggests a less binary way of thinking through smart devices and an appropriation of AI for queer purposes. This chapter departs from such insights but also critically extends them by referring to embodied queer knowledge of people with disabilities. By drawing on semi-fictional narratives, the chapter argues that people with disabilities are indeed cyborgs when, for example, thousands of them already drive AI-based cars. At the same time, the very bodily process of merging with AI is by no means easy per se. It can be painful. And it can be simply at the service of meeting normative expectations of an environment.
