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This is why AI has a gender problem

A humanoid robot named "Yangyang" shows a facial expression during its demonstration at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) 2015 in Beijing, China, April 29, 2015. The android was produced jointly by China's Shanghai Yangyang Intellegent Robot Science Service center and Japanese professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, with the aim of popularising robotics among the young. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000076986

Male engineers often build humanoid robots to look like women. Image: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Pascale Fung
Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAiRE) and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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