A. Autistan’s Contribution to the C20 2024 – Working Group 7 (Digitalization and Technology)

Synthesized Report – With Emphasis on Existential Risks and Autistic Inclusion

1. Foundational Vision and General Positioning

The Autistan Diplomatic Organization, while not a technological or academic entity in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), entered WG7 with a unique and essential perspective grounded in autistic experience, ethical reflection, and civilizational concern. Its contributions are not limited to the usual calls for “inclusion” but are based on a fundamental warning:

Humanity is progressively enslaving itself to automated systems—a process that goes far beyond economic, legal, or even ethical concerns.
It constitutes an existential threat to the human species: the denaturation of humanity through increasing automatism, passivity, and delegation of autonomy to machines.

This concern, rarely raised in official international frameworks, is central to Autistan’s engagement. The organization insists that the G20—and the C20 within it—must no longer ignore this drift that is not hypothetical, but observable and accelerating.

2. Key Thematic Axes and Recommendations by Autistan

A. Existential Risks: The Enslavement of Humans to Machines

• The most critical contribution from Autistan is the articulation of a civilizational alarm: as AI and automation grow in capability and pervasiveness, human agency, critical thinking, and natural autonomy are eroding.

• Autistic people may sense this more acutely, as they already suffer from the “automatic” behavior of neurotypical individuals in social interaction—a microcosm of what automation at scale is doing to society.

• The organization warned that humans are gradually functioning like robots—selectively listening, prematurely categorizing, losing the capacity to engage with nuance—mirroring how machines operate.

• Autistan proposed the creation of G20-level international observatories or think tanks to:

  • Monitor this trend.

  • Propose human-centered frameworks.

  • Reassert the centrality of dignity, attentiveness, natural communication, and autonomy.

B. Inclusion of Autistic Persons in AI Design and Evaluation

• Autistic individuals must not only benefit from AI but must be involved as co-designers of it.

• Technological systems often exclude or misinterpret autistic traits (e.g., nonstandard facial expressions, speech patterns, or interaction rhythms).

• AI tools must be co-developed with autistic input to ensure:

  • Real accessibility, not just for sensory aspects, but in terms of communication style and social interpretation.

  • Avoidance of discrimination and dehumanization, as flagged by the WHO document (“Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health,” 2024, p. 31).

• The organization emphasized that autistic people are natural sentinels against the artificiality and excesses of modern technological systems.

C. Positive Uses of AI for Autistic Individuals (With Ethical Safeguards)

1. AI in Education

   • Robots and AI systems can provide predictable, patient, and nonjudgmental educational support—qualities often absent in human teaching environments.

   • Autistan encouraged investment in customizable learning platforms, developed with autistic users, for autistic learners.

2. AI for Communication and Social Interaction

   • Autistic individuals often face barriers in understanding or being understood due to different semantics or sensory interpretations.

   • Autistan proposed AI-based real-time mediators, capable of filtering, translating, or rephrasing to facilitate bidirectional communication between autistics and non-autistics.

3. AI-Based Discussion Systems

   • Collective work between autistic individuals is rare due to sensory, organizational, or motivational challenges.

   • However, when thematic interest exists, productivity can be high. Autistan proposed the creation of AI-driven forums that generate structured discussion trees, manage asynchronous interaction, and support deep-topic exploration, all while respecting each person’s rhythm.

4. AI for Remote Crisis Assistance

   • Governments should develop real-time AI-based remote support systems, able to detect distress signals, trigger personalized intervention protocols, and provide immediate support to autistic individuals.

   • These systems must prioritize privacy, adaptability, and must be tested by autistic individuals themselves.

3. Additional Contributions and Philosophical Dimensions

A. Natural Humans Must Be Protected: Indigenous Peoples and Autistics

Autistan extended its existential argument by pointing to two groups that represent the last forms of “natural humanity”:

• Indigenous Peoples, especially in Brazil.

• Autistic individuals, and to some extent people with Down syndrome.

Technological intrusion into Indigenous territories is seen as a destruction of irreplaceable natural wisdom and diversity. As automation, hyperconnectivity, and digital encroachment expand, Autistan warns that these groups risk being annihilated not physically—but mentally, culturally, and spiritually.

Concrete proposals include:

• Protecting Indigenous Peoples from technological overexposure.

• Recognizing the moral duty of the G20—especially Brazil in 2024—to set a precedent for respecting natural humans.

• Including footnotes or phrasing that assert the right to self-determination, especially regarding digital connectivity.

4. Methodological Feedback and Meta-Advocacy

Autistan also provided feedback on the WG7 drafting process:

• Advocated for conciseness without omissions, using AI (e.g., ChatGPT) to save space in documents while preserving substance.

• Urged greater visibility for forgotten groups in connectivity policies: autistic people, neurodivergent individuals, migrants, children, elderly persons.

• Suggested clearer wording and stronger precision for mentions of “diversity and inclusion,” and proposed systematic use of footnotes to address complex nuances without impacting word counts.

5. Conclusion: A Call for Lucid, Courageous Action

The Autistan Diplomatic Organization used its position in WG7 to deliver a rare and essential message:

• AI is not merely a technological challenge—it is an anthropological one.

• The risk is not just exclusion or discrimination. The risk is the gradual disappearance of the very traits that define human beings: attentiveness, unpredictability, natural emotion, nuance, curiosity.

• If humanity does not proactively address this trajectory—starting with forums like the G20—then the dystopia described in Brave New World will not be a prophecy: it will be a description of our present.

Autistan’s contributions are archived at g20.autistan.org, where all recommendations are made public as a trace of resistance in a world increasingly indifferent to human naturalness.

B. G20 / C20 Brazil 2024 – Autistan General Working Document for Working Group N°7 “Digitalization and Technology”

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C. Special recommendation regarding the absolute, prioritized, and vital necessity for the naturalness of human species to protect Indigenous Peoples from technology

Indigenous Peoples, notably in Brazil, represent a country’s greatest treasure as they are the guardians and last remnants of original humanity, and thus, they should be protected and certainly not westernized.
The insidious invasion of these peoples by all means, carried out blindly and unconsciously by Westerners, can only be exacerbated by technology, such as access to mobile telephony and the internet, which rapidly and surely erodes their way of thinking, their way of being, their culture, and their identity.
In other words, after the physical destruction of these populations reduced to a handful, it’s a mental and moral destruction of the last natural and authentic humans, by denatured, artificial, machinal, and lost men. After destroying most animal species, destroying and polluting Nature, after “eliminating” most Down syndrome persons (and wanting to do the same with autistics), modern Man continues to saw off the branch on which he sits by continuing to harm Indigenous Peoples, now through technological means diametrically opposed to their nature, to Nature.
Brazil and other concerned countries have immense moral responsibility to Humanity on this matter, which is obviously much more important than the details concerning the digital evolution of the Western world.
When this society will have completely denatured, when humans will have lost their humanity (which has already largely begun), if it does not have “reserves of natural humans” (as in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” and similarly as with the Svalbard seed vault), then it will be definitively lost, and it won’t even know it.
The same reasoning applies to autistic individuals and surviving trisomic individuals, as other “natural humans” or “undenaturated humans.” It is still possible to avoid this – that is, the self-destruction of human naturalness of the human species inevitably followed by its physical destruction – if this warning is taken seriously and if real measures are taken, instead of the general indifference in the blind pursuit of materialistic and illusory pleasures.
The G20 in 2024 is in Brazil, the richest country in the world in terms of natural humanity thanks to the numerous Indigenous Peoples it has not yet thoughtlessly – and guiltily – destroyed.
This message is therefore very important, here and now: Brazil must understand these things and set an example.
(Autistic individuals naturally stand in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples, and we will publish all our recommendations on our website g20.autistan.org to leave traces, amidst general indifference and apathy.)

Concrete recommendations about Indigenous Peoples

G20 Recommendation: Protection and Preservation of Indigenous Peoples

Recommendation: The G20 should prioritize the protection and preservation of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil and other countries, recognizing them as invaluable guardians of humanity’s cultural and ecological heritage. This includes safeguarding their way of life from the detrimental impacts of unregulated technological intrusion.

Rationale:

1. Cultural and Ecological Guardianship: Indigenous communities hold deep-rooted knowledge and practices essential for environmental stewardship and cultural diversity.
2. Risks of Technological Intrusion: Unchecked technological exposure can erode indigenous cultures, identities, and traditional knowledge.
3. Moral Responsibility: Brazil and the G20 have a duty to preserve the world’s remaining “natural humans” for the benefit of global humanity.

Actionable Measures:

1. Strengthen Legal Protections: Enact and enforce laws that protect indigenous lands and cultures from exploitation and technological disruption.
2. Promote Digital Sovereignty: Support initiatives that enable Indigenous Peoples to control their engagement with digital technologies.
3. Global Awareness and Solidarity: Foster international collaboration to raise awareness about the importance of indigenous preservation and ensure their rights and voices are respected.

By leading these efforts, Brazil and other countries with Indigenous Peoples can set a global example, demonstrating a commitment to preserving the irreplaceable cultural and natural heritage embodied by its Indigenous Peoples.