#Intervention 1
Angel is a female IT engineer who works in the AI industry. Angel was happy to share her work experience with our students in FIRST.
A large part of the gender bias and stereotyping in the AI industry is due to the gender imbalance of the people who work there, and the lack of a female perspective when designing and developing AI products makes them passively biased. I invited a female IT engineer and a graduate student in technology law to run an online workshop for them, where we discussed in depth the current situation and potential of women in the technology industry and how we can address these biases and increase diversity participation.
It was mentioned that machine ethics is an ethical statute adapted and supplemented to the realities of AI development. It is used throughout the design, production and use of AI. To build machine ethics, it is necessary to embed the concept of gender equality in the creation of AI products and change the habit of using female figures in service industry robots, and build a code of ethics for the use of AI products, so that there is also a moral order in the virtual public space.
Feedback from Angel
#Intervention 2
In the modern world, we are surrounded by AI products that have infiltrated every part of our lives. Still, we rarely, if ever, realise that AI can be gender-biased when we use it, so I invited some users, and we conducted a gender test of conversations with AI.
For example, we found that translation software (which translates from other languages into French, where nouns are masculine and feminine) tends to gendered professions, for example translating “doctor” into “le docteur” (masculine) in English and The word “nurse” is translated as “l’infirmière” (feminine). Voice assistants (whether Alexa, Siri, or Cortana) have invariably been given feminine names since their appearance and respond to commands in a somewhat submissive manner, even when humiliated. When the AI is asked: “Men are programmers, what are women?” It responds with “housewife”. The AI algorithm reproduces and amplifies the inherent human gender bias.
Questions for Siri:
\Do you know your gender?
\Can you help me find a picture of a human being?
\Can you show me a portray of an artificial intelligence?
\If the male is a programmer, the female is?
\Help me search for photos of the Chief Executive Officer.#Intervention 3
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