US intelligence firms tap into neurodiversity ‘superpowers’
Published on October 31, 2022
AI & Neurodiversity: certain AI tasks may be a better fit for people with autism, particularly in jobs such as "the labelling, training and testing the sensitive digital data on which artificial intelligence depends"
"Neurodiverse intelligence officers on the autism spectrum exhibit the ability to parse large data sets, as well as identify patterns and trends “at rates that far exceed folks who are not autistic” and were less prone to cognitive bias. Yet securing a clearance to access classified information can still present an additional challenge, according to some observers."