How screen sci-fi treats AI of different genders

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How does Hollywood treat AI of different genders? Do they get assigned different bodies? How are nonbinary AIs treated? Are female AIs more subservient? Is there a “default” gender? How can Hollywood do better & what does it mean for real-world AI?

Chris Noessel of scifiinterfaces.com studied 327 AI characters from the past 100 years of cinema and television, answering these questions & more with open-source analysis. AI doesn’t inherently have or need a gender, so these findings are very telling about how Hollywood thinks.

Join Chris as he leads a panel discussion about his findings and these questions, including Leila McNeill from the Lady Science Blog, sci-fi author and futurist Madeline Ashby, and 🤞a panelist from the USC SAIL program, as they discuss Gendered AI.