Does artificial intelligence have a gender?

Artificial Intelligence is using advances to help medical professionals detect and treat cancers; emergency responders predict and prepare for impending natural disasters; police identify criminals and safely disarm bombs; organisations improve products, services and processes and school children receive tailored help from virtual teachers suited to their learning style. Through the use of robots and software agents, the machine may even perform these tasks alone or as a team member collaborating with humans. If we are going to build machines that play roles that simulate human reasoning, behaviour and activities, as a society we should ensure that those machines benefit all members of society, regardless of their age, gender, religion or status in society, rather than replicate human biases, perpetuate disparities or widen the gap between the haves and have nots. If AI is a simulation of human intelligence, who does it simulate and does it have a gender? Whether you view gender as socially constructed by one's environment and culture, a biologically determined factor as in the essentialist perspective, or adhere to the theory of individual differences, gender plays a role in who we are.