The segment, entitled "How We Exploit Artificial Intelligence", featured Professor Yasseri discussing his recent paper entitled "AI's Assigned Gender Affects Human-AI Cooperation". The paper explores how the perceived gender of AI agents can lead to bias in our interactions with them. This opened up a fascinating conversation on the construction of gender and our tendency to impose human qualifies on the technologies with which we interact every day.
You can listen to the full discussion at the link below.