And adding to this, isn't the whole issue assuming that Mike is a male? Imagine training a medical bot that gets stuck in a loop asking about pronouns in a an automated 911 call, for instance.
Modern society isn't easy to program for, if we're trying to make robots that conform to (western, minority) "norms".
Modern society isn't easy to program for, if we're trying to make robots that conform to (western, minority) "norms".