PATHS Forward: Queer Journeys in STEAM
Sep 28, 2026 · 17 min · 11 segments
Check out this bonus interview with the Nicolas Angelo Scott (he/him)! Nicolas was previously featured on an episode of PATHS in season 6. Nicolas talks about his life since his episode.
And there's a lot of hesitation from our community as well.
Do you have any just like thoughts, comments, opinions about like AI relating to the queer community?
Yeah, so first and foremost, I'm just always I guess it's I think some people get frustrated at my neurodivergent tendency to devil's advocate everything.
But it is hard for me to kind of look at aspects of technology as either good or bad, which does feel kind of like a sensitive topic when you come into marginalized communities.
I'm really just on the it's how a human uses it, right? Like that's always the first place I go to.
And a lot of people who have the power to control how we use AI are not necessarily for our community.
But I do like to take it back to basics, which is always if you like to see it kind of represent us more.
More of us have to be, you know, not necessarily embrace it, but be curious about it and not reject it and say, oh, you know, it's problematic technology.
Well, it is because the wrong people are using it, you know, but what happens when we do? And one of the things I've had more bandwidth to do lately, which is exactly how we kind of changed this conversation, is training your own models.
But what people don't understand is like those products, the AI kind of has these pre-built prompts and guardrails in it to make sure that it's used in like a commercial sense.
But if you kind of go into that world of like open source AI and learn where the open source models are, you can kind of train it on your own information.
Awesome.
Thank you for sharing that.
And there's a lot of hesitation from our community as well.
Do you have any just like thoughts, comments, opinions about like AI relating to the queer community?
Yeah, so first and foremost, I'm just always I guess it's I think some people get frustrated at my neurodivergent tendency to devil's advocate everything.
But it is hard for me to kind of look at aspects of technology as either good or bad, which does feel kind of like a sensitive topic when you come into marginalized communities.
I'm really just on the it's how a human uses it, right? Like that's always the first place I go to.
And a lot of people who have the power to control how we use AI are not necessarily for our community.
But I do like to take it back to basics, which is always if you like to see it kind of represent us more.
More of us have to be, you know, not necessarily embrace it, but be curious about it and not reject it and say, oh, you know, it's problematic technology.
Well, it is because the wrong people are using it, you know, but what happens when we do? And one of the things I've had more bandwidth to do lately, which is exactly how we kind of changed this conversation, is training your own models.
But what people don't understand is like those products, the AI kind of has these pre-built prompts and guardrails in it to make sure that it's used in like a commercial sense.
But if you kind of go into that world of like open source AI and learn where the open source models are, you can kind of train it on your own information.
Awesome.
Thank you for sharing that.
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