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Very unimpressed by pop neurodiversity influencers and their AI apologia. More bullshit claiming that anti-AI stances are classist and ableist and racist. Meanwhile, AI is built on exploited black labor, kills disabled people every day, disposesses the working class, and drinks all our water.

AI can be both useful and harmful for disabled people. I help a woman who is living with macular degeneration with learning to use a screen reader and Be My Eyes has AI help sometimes and it can be incredibly helpful when it is right. On the flip side AI systemically excludes disabled bodies from:

Screen readers are not AI. Be My Eyes recently incorporated AI into their tooling.

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