The future of AI is genderless
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Instead of giving everyone a subservient female assistant, what if our future AI helpers were designed to have no gender at all?
Siri is a Scandinavian female name that means “beautiful victory.” Dag Kittlaus, the co-creator of Siri, initially found the name when he was an expectant father. When he ended up having a son, he repurposed the name for his startup. To drive adoption of virtual assistants, developers gave Siri traits as close to human as possible. Unfortunately, these constructed, female identities reinforce dangerous stereotypes of subservient female assistants.
https://www.jameknowln.com/2019/03/the-future-of-ai-is-genderless.html
