Super proud/excited to share our [Lelia Annelies Kleinherenbrink] paper "Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women" wherein we develop a lens to help us trace a type of harm towards women within/by AI as a field & as a technology: osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/4

We first build our "Pygmalion lens" through examining literature, film, and other media (see the figure above, Figure 2 in osf.io/preprints/soca… ); and then apply the lens (also above, Table 1) to current types of technologies like voice assistants to demonstrate its use. 2/4

We also make the case that the Turing test, the imitation game (see "Interlude: Can women think?" in osf.io/preprints/soca…) rhetorically helps to form the founding historical example of Pygmalion displacement: when women computers were replaced by digital computers. 3/4

We end on asking you to use our lens where useful to note Pygmalion displacements as a first step towards escaping the cycle of sexist AI-based harm. When a parallel between women and AI is drawn, ask whom does that bait-and-switch serve? More here: osf.io/preprints/soca… 4/4

RT @[email protected] Super proud/excited to share our paper "Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women" wherein we develop a lens to help us trace a type of harm towards women within/by AI as a field & as a technology: (1/2)

osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/4 scholar.social/@olivia/109847… (2/2)

Not only should we not anthropomorphise chatbots, chatbots should not anthropomorphise themselves. That is to say, chatbots should not present themselves as having human-like attributes they lack, or otherwise deceive the user into thinking so.