An inevitable experiment — what does ChatGPT think of autism, and how does it represent it?

Edward Adams
13 min readApr 13, 2023

The laziest, but potentially most interesting, blog I will ever write.

It’s been fascinating to ask artificial intelligence some questions about autism! (image courtesy of Jonathan Kemper via Unsplash)

I’ve seen a ton of people claiming to have written loads of good Medium articles and other posts lately by just giving ChatGPT a few words and then leaving it to do the work. Having read many of those articles, I’m sceptical but I can see why people want to have their moment of looking smart!

My personal desire would be that convincing PowerPoints could be produced by these technologies, because I do really despise making them myself.

ChatGPT, if you’ve been living in a cave, is one of the sharpest AI tools ever produced, and is freely available to the public in a few forms. It’s designed to take prompts from you, and use it to produce well articulated content about the subject area, that feels as though it’s been written by a human.

Instead of using it to write a blog on here - which I will honestly never do - I thought I’d use it slightly differently.

I visited Open.AI, which is a format of ChatGPT where you can ask it questions and it will respond, conversation style. Well worth a look if you haven’t used it already.

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Edward Adams

I write about: transformation, innovation and design thinking; autism and mental health; workplace culture and effectiveness.