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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".



So don’t code that for a bot that responds to 911 calls.




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