Tech companies should also avoid
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 9:42 am
Since most smart assistants have a female voice, they send the message that women are docile servants with a perpetually accommodating attitude, available at the push of a button and always ready to say “OK .” According to UNESCO, voice assistants have no power to act beyond the responses they shower their users with. And they always respond regardless of the hostility that the user’s requests are fraught with.
Although technology companies are more than aware of the clichés that their voice assistant bolivia phone number sometimes fall into and have already taken steps to torpedo them (Google Assistant has, for example, several female and male voices with different accents and each of them is represented by colors without the user being able to deliberately select male or female voices), the UN argues that their efforts are far from sufficient.
According to a report published last month by the AI Now Institute, research in the field of artificial intelligence is overwhelmingly carried out by white men . Eighty percent of academics specializing in artificial intelligence are men. At Facebook, only 15 percent of AI experts are women, while at Google, the percentage is even lower: just 10 percent.
UNESCO says solutions to eradicating stereotypes in artificial intelligence include creating voices that are as gender-neutral as possible and creating systems that do not encourage insults and grievances that are rooted in gender.
treating voice assistants as human beings of a servile (and probably inferior) nature and transforming them into entities devoid of all humanity.
Although technology companies are more than aware of the clichés that their voice assistant bolivia phone number sometimes fall into and have already taken steps to torpedo them (Google Assistant has, for example, several female and male voices with different accents and each of them is represented by colors without the user being able to deliberately select male or female voices), the UN argues that their efforts are far from sufficient.
According to a report published last month by the AI Now Institute, research in the field of artificial intelligence is overwhelmingly carried out by white men . Eighty percent of academics specializing in artificial intelligence are men. At Facebook, only 15 percent of AI experts are women, while at Google, the percentage is even lower: just 10 percent.
UNESCO says solutions to eradicating stereotypes in artificial intelligence include creating voices that are as gender-neutral as possible and creating systems that do not encourage insults and grievances that are rooted in gender.
treating voice assistants as human beings of a servile (and probably inferior) nature and transforming them into entities devoid of all humanity.