Ep2: Voice Interfaces + Sexism

Do voice interfaces encourage sexism? Welcome to Law Zero: a podcast about the implications (intended or otherwise) of emerging technology. In honor of International Women’s Day, this week’s episode is about some of the women we have the most frequent contact with: our voice assistants. This show will cover everything from the difference between and voice interfaces, spoilers of all kinds (sub-spoilers, non-spoilers, non-fiction spoilers) as well as our favorite design suggestion to date: the NOPE legs. We can also now be found on iTunes! Our sources this week include: • Intro by Popular Science - "Siri Talks to HAL 9000 about A.I. Sexism" (video) • Tech Republic – “IBM Watson: The inside story of how the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer was born, and what it wants to do next” • The Psych Files – “Ep 272: How to Create a Human-like Voice” • Medium: “Should we root for robot rights?” • USA Today: "Alexa, are you turning my kid into a jerk?" • Quartz: “We tested bots like Siri and Alexa to see who would stand up to sexual harassment” • The Daily Dot: "How Bing became the Internet’s favorite porn search engine” • Hidden Brain: "I, Robot" • The New York Post: “Chinese users claim iPhone X face recognition can’t tell them apart”

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This episode is 00:29:44 long.

This episode was published on Mar 13, 2018.

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