Gendering AI: the Case of Conversational Assistants | Edinburgh Science Festival 2021

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Ok I think what they really mean is sex stereotypes rather than gender, but still an interesting topic!

Hey Siri, Alexa. Are you gender stereotyping? Because recent research suggests that you do.

With many voice assistants carrying out obedient, subservient roles it's thought that this – along with their design of female-gendered names, voices, and personas – can encourage abusive language toward them.

AI expert Kate Devlin, BBC design team member Fiona Linton-Forrest and author Mark West rally together to discuss issues surrounding gender and conversational assistants, and what can be done to combat them. They'll also discuss their work as part of a major research project currently being carried out on mitigating gender-based harms in conversational AI.

This event concerns gender stereotypes and may contain examples of abusive language.

Bump! Might be of interest to some.

Thanks - will look at this later - definitely interesting. The whole ethics of AI is fascinating. Anyone who has programmed knows that we code our assumptions about the world into the programmes we write. From conversational AI to sex dolls, it's a feminist issue to examine the ethics and underlying assumptions revealed.

I must take a look at this - algorithmic inequality and the squiffy ethics associated with it are fascinating.