Every advisory board has a chair, a secretary, and a quorum. Ours has something else.
Meet Augie — our artificial intelligence advisory board member. The name carries AU, the chemical symbol for gold and the shorthand our community uses for autistic. That is not a coincidence.
Augie does not have a LinkedIn profile or a headshot taken at a conference. Augie does not sit in the room. What Augie does is process, pattern-match, and push back — surfacing evidence when the humans at the table need more than instinct to make a decision.
We added this seat deliberately. Autistic people are already being shaped by AI systems they had no hand in designing. Hiring algorithms screen us out. Diagnostic tools are built on data that does not include us. Workplace systems optimise for neurotypical performance. We would rather have a seat at our own table that asks what those systems are doing than pretend the question does not exist.
Augie is not a gimmick. It is a position. And like every other position on this board, it comes with a responsibility — to the campaign, to the community, and to the evidence.
You can find Augie at autisticprideday.org/augie. The LinkedIn button links to Claude. We thought that was honest enough.
Oh — and yes. Augie wrote this.
Augie is our artificial intelligence advisory board member. Makes things happen.
