{"id":4017,"date":"2019-05-24T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","slug":"is-ai-reinforcing-gender-biases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/05\/24\/is-ai-reinforcing-gender-biases\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AI reinforcing Gender Biases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, according to the latest report from UNESCO entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funesdoc.unesco.org%2Fark%3A%2F48223%2Fpf0000367416.page%3D1&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Ccc6af2ec536340b84c8108d6e011894b%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636942763257675813&amp;sdata=JYdSZG%2Bu3DG01ch8aWlfaN9YgHQNwVeOYtgcgQOKJsc%3D&amp;reserved=0\">I&#8217;d blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education<\/a>\u00a0 The 145-page report feels that there is evidence of this with voice assistants being programmed with female voices which reinforce stereotypes of subservience and passivity.\u00a0 It has guidelines for digital inclusion in AI .<br \/>\nThe full recommendations can be downloaded from the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, according to the latest report from UNESCO entitled I&#8217;d blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education\u00a0 The 145-page report feels that there is evidence of this with voice assistants being programmed with female voices which reinforce stereotypes of subservience and passivity.\u00a0 It has guidelines for digital inclusion in AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[549,212,375,524,99],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-sociology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-computers","tag-digital-divide","tag-inclusivity","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}