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Neil Barnett

Neil Barnett

Neil Barnett is Microsoft's Chief Accessibility Officer, a Microsoft veteran of over two decades who previously led inclusive hiring and developed the company's Neurodiversity Hiring Program.

Sep 11, 2026

14:39
How can, you know, that engagement with the disability community, the willingness of people with disabilities to use technologies, however imperfect, help inform... better product development across your product stack and across the technology stacks, you know, around the globe? I think we probably know, but I'd love to see your view and hear your view for our audience.
15:06
Yeah.
15:07
That's a great question.
15:08
And you're right.
15:09
It's been around, AI has been around before 2022, right? Before the GPT moment.
15:15
I mean, if you look at seeing AI, right, that was 10 years ago.
15:19
That was 10 years ago, seeing AI.

7 MINS LATER

21:52
And they're stopping their own ideation process to a certain extent.

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