‘I’d Blush if I Could’: Digital Assistants, Disembodied Cyborgs and the Problem of Gender

By Hilary Bergen. 2016

62 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction

How researchers see this paper

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In Natural Language Processing

1. Iason Gabriel
2. John F. J. Mellor
3. Borja Balle
4. Geoffrey Irving
5. Myra Cheng
6. Lisa Anne Hendricks
7. Po-Sen Huang
8. Laura Rimell

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. William S. Isaac
2. Borja Balle
3. Po-Sen Huang
4. Abeba Birhane

Citations in the corpus

• Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models (2021, background): “The risk of representational harm in these cases is that the role of “assistant” is presented as inherently linked to the female gender (Bergen, 2016; Cercas Curry et al., 2020).”