Cinema Has Helped 'Entrench' Gender Inequality In AI - Liwaiwai

Study finds that just 8% of all depictions of AI professionals from 100 years of film are women – and half of these are shown as subordinate to men. Researchers from the University of Cambridge argue that such cultural tropes and a lack of female representation affects career aspirations and sector recruitment. Without enough women building AI there is a high risk of gender bias seeping into the algorithms set to define the future, they say. The team from the University's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) whittled down over 1,400 films to the 142 most influential cinematic works featuring AI between 1920 and 2020, and identified 116 characters they classed as "AI professionals". Of these, 92% of all AI scientists and engineers on screen were men, with representations of women consisting of a total of eight scientists and one CEO.