
For thirty years, Robin Christopherson MBE has shown how technology can remove barriers and bring people in. As Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet, he helped shape the tools that transformed accessibility - screen readers, voice control, and adaptive interfaces that became the foundation for modern computing.Now a new paradox is emerging. The same systems that once empowered people could begin to replace them. AI can already triage patients, interview candidates, and make complex decisions in milliseconds. But who decides where the human boundary sits and who can be trusted to draw it?