As awareness grows, more Japanese adults are receiving answers to struggles that went unrecognized for years. Social camouflaging can help neurodivergent people navigate social situations, but researchers say the effort often comes with significant emotional and mental strain. The first major crisis in Yosuke's life came when he stood in front of his students. Until then, the 24-year-old had navigated his life with few obstacles. He had done well in school, scored highly on IQ tests and graduated from university without any major issues. But after securing his dream job as a geography and history teacher at a girls' high school two years ago, cracks began to show. "I couldn't read the room," says Yosuke, who recalls struggling to organize course materials and wrap up classes on time.

We explore ideas and inclusive practices for designing and testing child-centered artificially intelligent technologies for neurodivergent children. AI is promising for supporting social communication, self-regulation, and sensory processing challenges common for neurodivergent children. The authors, both neurodivergent individuals and related to neurodivergent people, draw from their professional and personal experiences to offer insights on creating AI technologies that are accessible and include input from neurodivergent children. We offer ideas for designing AI technologies for neurodivergent children and considerations for including them in the design process while accounting for their sensory sensitivities. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of adaptable and supportive AI technologies and design processes and call for further conversation to refine child-centered AI design and testing methods.

Mind-reading technologies pose a "real danger" of discrimination and bias, the Information Commissioner's Office has warned, as it develops specific guidance for companies working in the sci-fi field of neurodata. The use of technology to monitor information coming directly from the brain and nervous system "will become widespread over the next decade", the ICO said, as it moves from a highly regulated medical advancement to a more general purpose technology. It is already being explored for potential applications in personal wellbeing, sport and marketing, and even for workplace monitoring. The current state-of-the-art in the field is demonstrated by individuals like Gert-Jan Oskam, a 40-year-old Dutch man who was paralysed in a cycling accident 12 years ago. In May, electronic implants in his brain gave him the ability to walk. "To many, the idea of neurotechnology conjures up images of science fiction films, but this technology is real and it is developing rapidly," said Stephen Almond, the ICO's executive director of regulatory risk.

Biases in artificial intelligence is an ongoing issue. As AI continues to become entwined in more technologies, its biases start to effect more people. For neurodivergent people, the emerging technology is already causing issues, especially as it becomes a vital element of AI job interviews. Reported by the BBC, AI job interviews are becoming more commonplace, and the tools used are far from perfect. Detailed in a BBC Three documentary, Computer Says No, the algorithms used to power modern recruitment tools are bordering on eugenics.