{"id":262,"date":"2016-12-15T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=262"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:43","slug":"rise-of-the-fembots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/15\/rise-of-the-fembots\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the fembots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AAmazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana are some of today’s most well-known virtual assistants<\/a>. All are female, and all elicit an image of an assistant who is not just a woman, but a woman people can boss around, flirt with, and act inappropriately toward. Compound that with portrayals in the media and it all starts to feel like a big step backward\u00a0rather than one toward\u00a0the future. “If we want the computers to behave differently, we have to actually pay attention to how we build them so we don’t just create mirrors of what society does,” says Rada Milhacea<\/strong>, professor of computer science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana are some of today’s most well-known virtual assistants. All are female, and all elicit an image of an assistant who is not just a woman, but a woman people can boss around, flirt with, and act inappropriately toward. Compound that with portrayals in the media and it all starts to feel\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-ai"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015.jpg",500,375,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015-e1483728180431-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015-400x300.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015.jpg",500,375,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015.jpg",500,375,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015.jpg",500,375,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015.jpg",500,375,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015.jpg",56,42,false],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015.jpg",400,300,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015.jpg",500,375,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Depositphotos_8582046_s-2015.jpg",333,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana are some of today’s most well-known virtual assistants. All are female, and all elicit an image of an assistant who is not just a woman, but a woman people can boss around, flirt with, and act inappropriately toward. Compound that with portrayals in the media and it all…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}