Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as Uma cidade é dividida em dois Setores: o Setor Sul, com área Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful de 10 km2, e o Setor Norte, com área de 30 km2. Após um final gender biases, according to a UN agency. de semana, foram divulgados os seguintes totais Research released by Unesco claims that the often pluviométricos: submissive and flirty responses offered by the systems to many Dia Sul Norte queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of sábado 7 mm 11 mm women as subservient. domingo 9 mm 17 mm “Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it sends a signal that women are obliging, docile and eager‐to‐ É correto afirmar que o total pluviométrico desse final de please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a semana na cidade inteira foi de blunt voice command like ‘hey’ or ‘OK’”, the report said.

1. A)15 mm. “The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the
2. B)17 mm. commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to
3. C)22 mm. queries regardless of their tone or hostility. In many
4. D)25 mm. communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biasesGABARITO
5. E)28 mm. that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.” The Unesco publication was entitled “I’d Blush if I Could”; a reference to the response Apple’s Siri assistant offers to the 24 phrase: “You’re a slut.” Amazon’s Alexa will respond: “Well, thanks for the feedback.” The paper said such firms were “staffed by overwhelmingly male engineering teams” and have built AI (Artificial Intelligence) systems that “cause their feminised digital assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch‐me‐if‐you‐can flirtation”. Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said: “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether AI technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.” The Guardian, May, 2019. Adaptado.