Just nine out 116 artificial intelligence in films are women, study shows

Just nine out 116 artificial intelligence in films are women, study shows. Cinema – including movies like ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Ex Machina’ – has played a part in solidifying systemic gender inequality in the AI sector as the characters working in that industry are almost all men, a study from the Universiy of Cambridge. The report’s authors said: “Given that male engineers have repeatedly been shown to engineer products that are most suitable for and adapted to male users, employing more women is essential for addressing the encoding of bias and pejorative stereotypes into AI technologies.” The stu…

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