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When Bias Gets a Body

Why we're shipping robots that approved removing wheelchairs

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A Z Mackay
Nov 12, 2025
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Imagine your legs suddenly declared optional equipment. That’s what happens when someone removes a wheelchair. Not assistance. Not accommodation. The chair is the body, extended. Take it away and you’ve performed a remote amputation without anesthesia, rendering someone dependent on others for positioning, vulnerable to physical manipulation they cannot…

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