Being each neurodivergent and a disabled has given Kelsey Lindell two very completely different views on AI.
As founder and CEO of Misfit Media, a consulting agency centered on incapacity inclusion, Lindell depends on AI to—sarcastically—assist her higher talk with different individuals.
“My No. 1 use case for AI is asking it to make me sound nicer,” she shared on the Empowering Your Subsequent Transfer With AI panel at Adcolor’s Ctrl+Alt+Elevate 2025 convention in Orlando, Fla.
As an individual with ADHD and autism, she typically finds that her suggestions can come off as too blunt to be constructive. “I view AI the identical manner I do Google Translate: I might by no means go to a different nation and anticipate all of them to talk English.”
However in her subsequent breath, she admitted to being “somewhat bit afraid of AI” and highlighted how the know-how has made her conform even when she constructed her enterprise on standing out. She as soon as uploaded a photograph of herself right into a genAI program that may flip photographs into transferring movies. Lindell was born with a shortened left forearm and solely three fingers on that hand. “The AI grew my arm again,” she mentioned.
The issue with AI, in her view, is it’s constructed on content material and movies that exist already. Disabled individuals make up greater than 28% of the U.S. inhabitants but are solely represented in 1% of primetime TV promoting—the vast majority of which is “problematic,” she famous. “Which signifies that when AI is constructed on what’s on the market, I’m actually afraid of the erasure and unhealthy stereotypes that, respectfully, the artistic business is already perpetuating about us, spreading like wildfire.”
The enterprise case
The wildfire metaphor is apt: A latest Gallup ballot discovered that 98% of individuals have heard about or are aware of AI, and about 39% use it—however solely 8% of individuals really feel very educated about it.
However for a few of those who have embraced it, the know-how has been nothing wanting life altering.
Neisha Tweed Bell based her Atlanta company, Subsequent Degree Up Artistic, in 2023 after greater than 20 years in promoting (Ogilvy, Pubicis) and social media (Fb, Meta). The previous two years as an entrepreneur “has been a really lonely, terrifying, and irritating expertise.” As a one-woman group, she depends on platforms like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Anthropic’s Claude to be her junior creatives.
“These are the oldsters which might be serving to me pull collectively the concepts and the insights and the executions which might be going to ship on what I need to do in my enterprise, and actually, what I need to do in my life,” she mentioned, describing the know-how as “that iron to sharpen my iron that makes me truly do higher work.”
