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AI has... well, a lot of problems. Last year Alexa would respond to sexist comments like they were compliments. Last week Facebook has to apologize for its AI system labeling black people as “primates”. Yikes. But none of this explains why AI voices are always female (Siri, Alexa, Cortana) and it seems experts can’t even agree on why.
There’s so much to unpack that we could never fit it into a post, but we did try to fit it into an IGTV episode. But what do you think? Is it nice that AI has a soothing female voice? Or does it set up a stereotype that doesn’t help women?
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