Anti-A.I. Views Can Be Protected
People can object to A.I., debate its harms, or choose not to use it. Hateful or offensive speech is not automatically a hate crime.
If you need A.I. to be gainfully employed, this matters.
Are you afraid to speak out and risk losing everything?
Are you a small business facing pressure?
Reportable experiences
- Demands to employ only certain kinds of people
- Threats or intimidation
- Blocked A.I. access
- Bullying at work, at school, or in cultural spaces.
Civil rights clarity
Anti-A.I. Speech Is Legal. Disability Inclusion Has Protections.
People can dislike A.I., criticize it, or refuse to use it themselves. That kind of disagreement is usually protected.
But when a disabled person uses A.I. as assistive technology, blocking that use can become more than an opinion. It can affect disability inclusion, access, equal participation, and civil rights.
The concern is not A.I. by itself. The concern is disability-related use connected to communication, employment, education, care, creativity, public services, business access, cultural participation, or equal inclusion.
Assistive Use Changes the Issue
A.I. can function as assistive technology when it helps a disabled person communicate, work, learn, organize care, create, or participate equally.
Cultural Discrimination
Exclusion often starts as social pressure, stigma, stereotypes, or gatekeeping. When those pressures target disabled people who use A.I. for access, they can push people out of work, school, services, art, culture, and community life.
Disability Inclusion Has Legal Protections
Depending on the facts, disability-related A.I. use can be connected to protections under the ADA, Section 504, California Unruh protections, employment rules, public entities, federally funded programs, or businesses open to the public.
Threats Are Different
Threats, violence, intimidation, retaliation, property damage, or criminal conduct connected to disability bias can be treated differently than ordinary disagreement or offensive speech.
A.I. is not protected just because it is A.I. The issue is whether disability-related A.I. use is connected to assistive technology, access, communication, independence, employment, services, public participation, or equal treatment.
What happened?
Has this happened to you?
Have you been harassed for using A.I. as a disability aid?
Have you received death threats because of your use of A.I. as assistive technology?
Have you been denied employment or access to a public entity because you use A.I. as assistive technology?
Has anyone demanded money from you because of your A.I. use, disability access needs, or creative work?
Make a Report
Begin with the report form. Humboldt Includes will reply before the next step of sharing evidence or witness statements.
Get ready
Before You Report
Save anything that shows what happened.
What Happens Next
- First reply. After you contact Humboldt Includes, you will receive a reply.
- Evidence later. After that reply, you may submit evidence or witness statements for the ongoing investigation.
- Name safety. You may ask that your name not be disclosed for safety, prevention of retaliation, or other reasons.
- Green A.I. Consider committing to support Green A.I. so assistive technology can advance inclusion and sustainability.
- Screenshots
- Messages
- Dates and times
- Names and locations
- Witnesses
- Records of exclusion, threats, harassment, retaliation, or demands for money
Disability rights in Humboldt County
You May Be Protected by Law
When A.I. functions as assistive technology, exclusion or harassment may become a disability-access issue. Whether a specific event violates the law depends on the facts.
ADA
Under the ADA, A.I. is not protected just because it is A.I. It becomes an ADA access issue when a disabled person's use of A.I. is connected to equal access, effective communication, reasonable accommodation, reasonable modification, independence, or equal participation in a business, public service, workplace, program, or community activity.
Learn about the ADASection 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, A.I. is not protected just because it is A.I. It becomes a Section 504 disability-access issue when a qualified disabled person's use of A.I. is connected to equal access, effective communication, reasonable modification, independence, function, services, benefits, or equal participation in a federally funded program, service, school, healthcare setting, agency, or activity.
Learn about Section 504Assistive Technology Act
A.I. is not protected just because it is A.I. It becomes an assistive-technology issue when the person's disability-related use is connected to access, independence, function, communication, or equal participation.
Learn about assistive technologyCalifornia Unruh Civil Rights Act
Under the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, A.I. is not protected just because it is A.I. It becomes a civil-rights access issue when a disabled person uses A.I. for communication, independence, services, or equal participation in a California business or public-facing service.
Learn about the Unruh ActCalifornia Attorney General Business Complaint
For local business concerns involving disability-access discrimination, denial, restriction, harassment, or retaliation related to assistive technology, auxiliary aids, effective communication, or reasonable modification.
File a business complaintSome Conduct Can Become Criminal
Threats, violence, intimidation, or criminal acts motivated by disability bias may be investigated as hate crimes depending on the facts, evidence, and intent.
California DOJ Hate Crimes Information