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Your AI thinks you're a dude. And that's a problem for everybody who is not. Matching LLMs with decision-making scenarios shows escalatory recommendations are around 10× more likely when actors are identified as male rather than female. And default behaviour in the absence of gender specifiers is overwhelmingly "male". The more such models inform real decisions, the greater the risk of building genuine machina machista — machines whose ordinary use normalises misogynistic and macho behaviour…
The current purpose for a select few is to help computer programs replace the purposeful labour of a generation of uniquely idiosyncratic human beings. Yet the relationship of those being replaced to their own intrinsic purpose is categorically indistinguishable to that of those people doing the replacing. The end point of any logic of AI-replaceability is hierarchical collapse, the auto-CEO, and economic death. The saving grace is that, unlike purpose, joy steadfastly resists hierarchical…
