Cinema has helped 'entrench' gender inequality in AI
13 February 2023Study finds that just 8% of all depictions of AI professionals from a century of film are women – and half of these are shown as subordinate to men.
Study finds that just 8% of all depictions of AI professionals from a century of film are women – and half of these are shown as subordinate to men.
Work at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence will aim to prevent the embedding of existing inequalities – from gender to class and race – in emerging technologies.
The overwhelming ‘Whiteness’ of artificial intelligence – from stock images and cinematic robots to the dialects of virtual assistants – removes people of colour from humanity's visions of its high-tech future.
