Digital assistants like Siri and Alexa entrench gender biases, says UN http://bit.ly/2QeJrQI Kevin Rawlinson Female-voiced tech often gives submissive responses to queries, Unesco report finds Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful gender biases, according to a UN agency. Research released by Unesco claims that the often submissive and flirty responses offered by the systems to many queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of women as subservient. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J May 22, 2019 at 01:27AM

Female-voiced tech often gives submissive responses to queries, Unesco report finds

Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful gender biases, according to a UN agency.

Research released by Unesco claims that the often submissive and flirty responses offered by the systems to many queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of women as subservient.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2QeJrQI