Excerpt from the linked abstract1 by Ian Pattern:
Researchers on the College of Cambridge reviewed greater than 1,400 movies launched between 1920 and 2020 and whittled them right down to the 142 most influential motion pictures that includes synthetic intelligence.
Their evaluation recognized 116 AI professionals. Solely 9 of those have been ladies, of which 5 labored for a person or have been the kid or companion of a extra senior male AI engineer.
The research highlights movies such because the 2008 Avengers film Iron Man, which depicts a stereotypical lone male genius who has mastered so many abilities that he can synthesise a component and remedy the issue of time journey “in a single evening”.
Past the impression on gender steadiness, the research raises considerations in regards to the knock-on results of merchandise that favour male customers as a result of they’re developed by what the previous Microsoft worker Margaret Mitchell referred to as “a sea of dudes”.
“Provided that male engineers have repeatedly been proven to engineer merchandise which can be most fitted for and tailored to male customers, using extra ladies is important for addressing the encoding of bias and pejorative stereotypes into AI applied sciences,” the report’s authors write.
1 Ian Pattern, 13 Feb. 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/know-how/2023/feb/13/just-nine-out-of-116-ai-professionals-in-films-are-women-study-finds
