Adam Neumann: AI helps dyslexic individuals write without spelling mistakes
Adam Neumann · Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies · Jun 12, 2025 · at 13:24
WeWork and Flow co-founder Adam Neumann discusses how AI tools like ChatGPT help individuals with severe dyslexia communicate in writing without making spelling mistakes.
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“I have a lot of dyslexic friends now who keep, everyone keeps calling me about how they're using AI to write stuff because it's just, they're not making mistakes anymore because my kind of dyslexia, even when you do the auto, even if you need, when you did it dictate it to the phone, you still get sent, especially with my accent. You still get spelling mistakes and then you can't fix them. But when you chat GDP, you can actually get over that.”
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