Is AI being built to be sexist? A controversial AI advertising campaign has revived concerns that gender bias is being built into the technologies that will shape our future.
Watchdog assessing advert for misogyny
Virtual poster girl: A controversial AI advertising campaign at Bristol airport has sparked a major backlash after using sexist tropes to promote its new virtual employee. Glossary
Stereotypes - Stereotypes are ideas about how people will act, based on the group to which they belong.
Productivity - The rate at which an individual, company or group produce work or make something.
Misogyny - Hatred of or discrimination against women. The term comes from the Ancient Greek "miso", meaning "hate", and "gyne", "woman".
Algorithms - Any set of rules followed by a computer. In the context of social media, “the algorithm” refers to the intelligent AI that learns the interests of the user and presents them with posts that it thinks will interest them.