{"id":21830,"date":"2016-02-09T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/inside-the-surprisingly-sexist-world-of-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:58:18","slug":"inside-the-surprisingly-sexist-world-of-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/inside-the-surprisingly-sexist-world-of-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Inside the surprisingly sexist world of artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-the-surprisingly-sexist-world-of-artificial-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI designed badly will indeed have detrimental impact for decades to come. We do have a crisis in AI world. Where are the women? With AI today, we\u2019re developing the underlying foundation for AI in the future. And, without women in a large half of that development; we run a huge risk of failure by designing a foundation that only connects with maybe 40% of the world. That means 60% of missed opportunity is left on the table plus lets face it women totally understands how (better than anyone else) to incorporate feelings &amp; thoughts together.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>This post has been updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt Stephen Hawking is a smart guy. But the world-famous theoretical physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/520907\/stephen-hawking-robots-arent-just-taking-our-jobs-theyre-making-society-more-unequal\/\">recently declared<\/a> that women leave him stumped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen should remain a mystery,\u201d Hawking wrote in response to a Reddit user\u2019s question about the realm of the unknown that intrigued him most. While Hawking\u2019s remark was meant to be light-hearted, he sounded quite serious discussing the potential dangers of artificial intelligence during Reddit\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/science\/comments\/3nyn5i\/science_ama_series_stephen_hawking_ama_answers\/\">online Q&amp;A session<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/531257\/inside-the-surprisingly-sexist-world-of-artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI designed badly will indeed have detrimental impact for decades to come. We do have a crisis in AI world. Where are the women? With AI today, we\u2019re developing the underlying foundation for AI in the future. And, without women in a large half of that development; we run a huge risk of failure by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62951,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions\/62951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}