{"id":10673,"date":"2023-07-10T07:37:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/do-ai-makers-only-dream-of-female-robots-letter\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T07:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:37:29","slug":"do-ai-makers-only-dream-of-female-robots-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/do-ai-makers-only-dream-of-female-robots-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Do AI makers only dream of \u2018female\u2019 robots? | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers should grasp the opportunity to address misogyny in society rather than entrench it, says <strong>Liz Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/06\/humanoid-robots-gather-ai-summit-geneva\" title=\"\">Never underestimate a droid: robots gather at AI for Good summit in Geneva, 6 July<\/a>)<strong> <\/strong>begins by listing four of the robot delegates that are attending the AI for Good summit \u2013 all four are \u201cfeminised robots\u201d \u2013 and I remembered the thought I had when I saw Ai-Da perform poetry at the Ashmolean in Oxford in 2021: why does a robot need boobs?<\/p>\n<p>Robotics and AI are fields undoubtedly occupied primarily by men and yet many robots, and AI assistants (think Siri, Alexa and so on) often take on a \u201cfeminised\u201d form. Perhaps we are more comfortable telling a feminised voice to do things for us.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/09\/do-ai-makers-only-dream-of-female-robots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/220c7ee1200e9de3a813d54bd9f6e8225b9695ed\/574_510_3794_2276\/master\/3794.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=39c9e1535cba6f0b38fe8be79d66533b\" title=\"Do AI makers only dream of \u2018female\u2019 robots? | Letter\" \/>Developers should grasp the opportunity to address misogyny in society rather than entrench it, says Liz Jackson<br \/>\nYour article (Never underestimate a droid: robots gather at AI for Good summit in Geneva, 6 July) begins by listing four of the robot delegates that are attending the AI for Good summit \u2013 all four are \u201cfeminised robots\u201d \u2013 and I remembered the thought I had when I saw Ai-Da perform poetry at the Ashmolean in Oxford in 2021: why does a robot need boobs?<br \/>\nRobotics and AI are fields undoubtedly occupied primarily by men and yet many robots, and AI assistants (think Siri, Alexa and so on) often take on a \u201cfeminised\u201d form. Perhaps we are more comfortable telling a feminised voice to do things for us. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers should grasp the opportunity to address misogyny in society rather than entrench it, says Liz Jackson Your article (Never underestimate a droid: robots gather at AI for Good summit in Geneva, 6 July) begins by listing four of the robot delegates that are attending the AI for Good summit \u2013 all four are \u201cfeminised &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/do-ai-makers-only-dream-of-female-robots-letter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do AI makers only dream of \u2018female\u2019 robots? | Letter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}