{"id":10615,"date":"2019-08-30T08:39:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T08:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/?p=10615"},"modified":"2019-08-30T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T08:43:22","slug":"women-in-ai-reinforcing-sexism-and-stereotypes-with-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2019\/08\/30\/women-in-ai-reinforcing-sexism-and-stereotypes-with-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in AI: Reinforcing Sexism and Stereotypes with Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article from Techopedia on the persistent problem of bias in AI. Why are gendered stereotypes manifested in the female identities associated with AI assistants? Why is there a systemic gender gap in technology roles in general, and in AI in particular?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A recent UNESCO report warns how, if men continue to dominate this space, gender inequalities will be perpetuated as unrecognized bias is replicated and built into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/3739\/algorithm\">algorithms<\/a>\u00a0and artificial intelligence.<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2019\/08\/techopedia_name_170x58.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10618 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2019\/08\/techopedia_name_170x58.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article by Ariella Brown here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/women-in-ai-reinforcing-sexism-and-stereotypes-with-tech\/2\/33952?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=bestof&amp;utm_campaign=08272019?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=bestof&amp;utm_campaign=08272019\">Women in AI\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article from Techopedia on the persistent problem of bias in AI. Why are gendered stereotypes manifested in the female identities associated with AI assistants? Why is there a systemic gender gap in technology roles in general, and in AI in particular? A recent UNESCO report warns how, if men continue to dominate this&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2019\/08\/30\/women-in-ai-reinforcing-sexism-and-stereotypes-with-tech\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Women in AI: Reinforcing Sexism and Stereotypes with Tech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,5],"tags":[882,881],"class_list":["post-10615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equality-and-diversity","category-news","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10621,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions\/10621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}