Over one billion people worldwide live with disabilities. In our schools, workplaces, and communities, they are our classmates, colleagues, friends, and family.

Yet in the rapidly expanding world of AI-generated imagery, they've simply disappeared.

When AI creates images of "people," it systematically excludes 15%-20% of humanity. Amputees, wheelchair users, people with visible disabilities – all erased from AI's vision of our world. This isn't an oversight. It's the direct result of overly cautious policies that treat the mere existence of disability as somehow inappropriate or problematic.

The irony is painful: after decades of fighting for representation in media and advertising, people with disabilities are now being digitally erased by the very technology that will shape our future visual landscape.

This digital erasure has real consequences:

• It reinforces harmful stereotypes that disability should be hidden
• It denies people with disabilities the right to see themselves represented in our digital future
• It creates a distorted world view for AI systems being trained on these sanitized images
• We don't accept "separate but equal" in other contexts. We shouldn't accept it in AI.

The disability community has fought too hard and too long for visibility to be rendered invisible by algorithms. Leading AI companies have the power to fix this immediately by updating their image generation policies to explicitly include respectful, natural representation of people with disabilities.

This isn't about special treatment. It's about ending special exclusion.

Sign this petition demanding that AI companies stop the digital erasure of +one billion people. Because a future that doesn't include everyone isn't innovative – it's discriminatory.

Disability inclusion isn't optional. It's essential.