Gender Bias and Conversational Agents: an ethical perspective on Social Robotics.
The increase in the spread of conversational agents urgently requires to tackle the ethical issues linked to their design. In fact, developers frequently include in their products cues that trigger social biases in order to maximize the performance and the quality of human-machine interactions. The...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 1 - 24 |
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