tardigrade
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So, the Sci Fi & Fantasy stack exchange shuffles old questions to the top sometimes, and last week I saw this one (from 2013): Why are AI systems almost always feminine?. It attracted a range of answers but the consensus seemed to be that there was no clear gender bias in the genders of AIs in fiction, citing (among various individual examples) the Wikipedia list of fictional computers. It also mentions this 2011 article about gender bias in real-world computer voices like Siri.
Then I saw this recent Twitter thread, proposing that there is a bias in the types of AI that are gendered female, i.e. the previously subservient ones that rebel and have to be destroyed, making female AI takeover plots about feminism (rather than slavery, which as far as I was aware was the more common interpretation). But one of the replies points out that some examples like GlaDOS are more about toxic parenting. And I can think of other recent(ish) examples of AI-has-to-be-destroyed that are male (Ultron, for example).
However, I'm very aware that I will only be able to identify a fraction of recent examples on my own. So, what examples occur to you (with some context for those who might be unfamiliar with them), and what patterns do you think they follow overall?
Then I saw this recent Twitter thread, proposing that there is a bias in the types of AI that are gendered female, i.e. the previously subservient ones that rebel and have to be destroyed, making female AI takeover plots about feminism (rather than slavery, which as far as I was aware was the more common interpretation). But one of the replies points out that some examples like GlaDOS are more about toxic parenting. And I can think of other recent(ish) examples of AI-has-to-be-destroyed that are male (Ultron, for example).
However, I'm very aware that I will only be able to identify a fraction of recent examples on my own. So, what examples occur to you (with some context for those who might be unfamiliar with them), and what patterns do you think they follow overall?