Naba Rizvi

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Naba Rizvi is an emerging scholar whose research sits at the critical intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, autism, and disability justice. With a focus on how human-like AI technologies — including robots and chatbots — engage with neurodivergent communities, Rizvi brings a sharp ethical lens to questions that the field has long overlooked. Their most cited work, "Are Robots Ready to Deliver Autism Inclusion?" (2024, 23 citations), challenges prevailing assumptions in assistive robotics by exposing how contemporary research perpetuates the dehumanization, infantilization, and marginalization of autistic people, even when framed as inclusive or therapeutic. This critical review has quickly gained traction, signaling a growing appetite for accountability within human-robot interaction research. Their follow-up work examining how AI creators themselves conceptualize ethics and neurodivergence adds a rare practitioner perspective to the conversation, interrogating how definitions of "humanness" embed historical biases that disadvantage already-marginalized communities. Through their scholarship, Rizvi pushes both researchers and technologists to confront the ideological assumptions embedded in their tools — making their work essential reading for anyone designing AI systems intended to serve diverse human populations.