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The ethics of AI at the intersection of transgender identity and neurodivergence
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“(Parks, 2025), in a perspective article, analyzed AI discrimination at the intersection of transgender identity and neurodivergence, finding that individuals who belong to both groups face compounded and mutually reinforcing forms of algorithmic exclusion, binary gender coding in AI healthcare systems fails transgender patients, while neurodivergent communication styles are misread by NLP systems”
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“neurodivergent communication styles are misread by NLP systems trained on neurotypical language patterns.”
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“In the domain of facial recognition and biometric AI, systems trained predominantly on binary gender categories systematically misclassify transgender and non-binary individuals, effectively rendering their identities invisible or incorrect (Katyal and Jung, 2021;Parks, 2025).”
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- 2025-04-07
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