Disabling Intelligences

Rua M. Williams' Disabling Intelligences traces how historical eugenic thought and race science continue to influence assumptions about intelligence in AI research and policy.

The book situates contemporary debates about artificial intelligence within broader histories of disability, racial science, and exclusionary institutions.

Williams critiques technoscientific practices that reify hierarchies of cognitive worth and shows how those practices marginalize and harm disabled and racialized communities.

The work calls for rethinking intelligence metrics and emphasizes ethical, social, and political remedies to counteract these enduring harms.