Open Society

From the very beginning, Rogers knew that love meant talking about the hard stuff.

“The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that [they were] lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life,[they] can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.” -Rev. Fred Rogers

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations have always included autistic people & those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), yet our existence is not adequately reflected in SGM health research. Instead, autistic SGMs, particularly those of color, are excluded from & mistreated in clinical & research settings, resulting in adverse health outcomes. Autism, alone, does not create these disparities. To start closing the gaps, NIH’s strategic plan for SGM health research must replace the euphemistic “ability status” with the more precise “disability status.” The plan must also expand its “sexual and gender minority subpopulation” to include SGM’s with IDD & SGM’s of color with IDD.

Impact of individuals’ gender/sex & race/ethnicity on accessing an autism diagnosis & autism services & supports. While research is starting to grasp the gender disparities in accessing an autism diagnosis, there is little discussion about accessing an autism diagnosis for trans & gender-non-conforming people, & even less focus on the intersectional experiences of SGM people of color in this context. Closing equity gaps in access to diagnosis is essential because diagnosis is often a gateway to services & supports.

Compass

This ability to “observe” software makes HTML special to work with.

This brings to mind J.R. Carpenter’s writing on A Handmade Web where a relationship is made “between handmade web pages and handmade print materials, such as zines, pamphlets, and artists books.”[11] Pages made by hand, the presence of a person in motion, manipulating a medium as an act of self-publishing as well as an act of allowing others to contribute.

In this paper, we first present a taxonomy of GenAI misuse tactics, informed by existing academic literature and a qualitative analysis of  200 media reports of misuse and demonstrations of abuse of GenAI systems published between January 2023 and March 2024). Based on this analysis, we then illuminate key and novel patterns in GenAI misuse during this time period (see Section 4: Findings), including potential motivations, strategies, and how attackers leverage and abuse system capabilities across modalities (e.g. image, text, audio, video) in an uncontrolled environment. We find that: 1. Manipulation of human likeness and falsification of evidence underlie the most prevalent tactics in real-world cases of misuse. Most of these were deployed with a discernible intent to influence public opinion, enable scam or fraudulent activities, or to generate profit. 2. The majority of reported cases of misuse do not consist of technologically sophisticated uses of GenAI systems or attacks. Instead, we are predominantly seeing an exploitation of easily accessible GenAI capabilities requiring minimal technical expertise. 3. The increased sophistication, availability and accessibility of GenAI tools seemingly introduces new and lower-level forms of misuse that are neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ terms of services, but still have concerning ethical ramifications. These include the emergence of new forms of communications for political outreach, self-promotion and advocacy that blur the lines between authenticity and deception (see Section 5: Discussion).

Six themes were developed from the analysis, the most relevant being Autistic–Autistic communication and Autistic ToM. The results, in line with the Double Empathy theory, suggest there seem to be important differences between neurotypical and autistic people's ToM. These appear to make it easier for autistic people to communicate with one another, as well as to create difficulties for neurotypical people to understand autistic people, not just the other way around.

Autistic individuals seem to find it easier to communicate with other autistic people, and they identify specific characteristics of neurotypical communication that hinder successful communication. Moreover, neurotypical people are perceived as having difficulties in autistic ToM, which seems to emerge as a relevant and needed construct in light of the Double Empathy problem.