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This website acts as my civic action in hoping to educate more people on this topic. My goal is to give people resources to be able to help them recognize the negative patterns that are perpetuated through AI. Encased in this website is various articles as well as an informal research study I ran with the help of my peers. Within this study I collected writing from various people, both neurotypical and neurodivergent, and ran it through AI checkers to not only test their reliability but also in what ways they might target neurodivergent individuals over neurotypicals. Below is a table of contents of everything that exists in this website and the introduction to everything being discussed across the various articles.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Introduction to the Website
  2. Articles
    • Cube Analysis Through an AI Lens
    • AI Discrimination
    • Diagnosing and ATs
  3. Study
    • AI Checker Study Overview
    • Study Results
    • Study Conclusion
  4. Sources
    • Works Cited

INTRODUCTION

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is being heavily integrated into everyone’s day to day lives, whether they choose it or not. It’s now the first search result to come up in google unless you go through all of the work of finding the setting and turning it off. AI chat bots are being used to create art without the implementation of the human experience. It’s creating media, being combined with medical technologies, imitating real world relationships with people, and so much more that is going unseen. Many people have taken a bystander approach to this issue, watching it all happen, but believing it will do nothing to affect them. Believing it’s just unavoidable for the never-ending advancement of technology. What the majority of people don’t see is how AI is not just being used as a tool but as a weapon. Its qualities, while not purposeful, target specific groups of people who already have struggles in society and their daily lives

The 1997 film Cube delves into the ideas of unavoidable influence of technology. It’s set up to seem based in a sci-fi world, but the truth is that what happens in the film, while exaggerated, is heavily based in the current state of the world we live in. In Cube, a randomly selected group of people are chosen to be placed into a giant automated cube, crafted by the government. It’s filled with traps, with the purpose of taking innocent people’s lives. The advancement of technology is strictly being used as a weapon against everyone, but also divides the characters in between neurotypical and neurodivergent people. Specifically, Kazan is a character separated from the main group that is noted to be neurodivergent. This is how the Cube targets Kazan and therefore what he represents, which is neurodivergent people.

AI and neurodivergence might seem like two subjects on the opposite ends of the human experience, but they are actually quite intrinsically connected. AI is being introduced into the experience of many neurodivergent people, and in some ways against their will. AI is being interconnected to ATs (assistive technologies) and even the diagnosing process (Iannone & Giansanti 2023). Studies testing these incorporations fail to actually involve the experience of the neurodivergent individual into the results, so in many ways neurodivergent people aren’t getting a say in their own care. AI, even unintentionally, is getting weaponized and utilized in systems that actively oppress people (Hawkins 2024).

This isn’t just in the diagnosing process, but their personal and school experiences. Neurodivergent people are more likely to fall into an AI induced psychosis, or loss of reality, and more likely to be accused of using AI under false positives from AI checkers. AI is being forced into the lives of all people but for neurodivergent people it is being used as a weapon to discriminate and alienate them more than they already are from neurotypical society.