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Reconstructing Care in the Automation Era: Triage, Neurodiversity, and the Social Safety Net
Reconstructing Care in the Automation Era: Triage, Neurodiversity, and the Social Safety Net

Firstly it's important to recognise that mental illness is culturally constructed and that it actually exists. This means that stigma itself compounds the problem and that stigma needs to be treated in society as a whole. And this is the way to increase the tolerance for difference in the Age of AI:

As artificial intelligence accelerates structural shifts across the global economy—with industry projections, including those cited by figures like Bill Gates, warning of job displacement reaching 25 percent or more—public institutions face an urgent structural challenge. In Canada, an economy grappling with widespread technological disruption cannot rely on medicalised models of psychological distress to absorb social dislocation.

A viable structural approach requires a clear division of social, medical, and economic responsibilities: establishing a guaranteed basic income to neutralise technological unemployment, rerouting situational distress to family systems therapy, and instituting an uncompromising functional barrier to specialised psychiatric care. Crucially, strictly walling off psychiatry does not merely preserve clinical resources; by acknowledging that much of mental illness is culturally constructed while severe pathology remains an empirical reality, this barrier fosters genuine community tolerance for human variation and strips medical stigma away from unconventional minds.

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