Is AI Inherently Sexist? New Virtual Assistant Alice Uses AI To Help Women Entrepreneurs

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single chatbot, powered by artificial intelligence, will inevitably learn from human users to be a sexist pig. Microsoft learned this lesson the hard way in 2016 when it released the Twitter chatbot known as Tay. Within hours, Tay was tweeting sentences like "Zoe Quinn is a Stupid Whore" and "I fucking hate feminists and they should all die and burn in hell." A recent study published in the journal Science, conducted by researchers at Princeton University and the University of Bath, found machine learning inherently "absorbs stereotyped biases" from human internet users. That includes racial bias, as proved by Google search algorithms' propensity to prioritize images of white women and babies over people of color.