Even female chatbots get paid less than male AI agents

Even chatbots aren’t immune from human prejudice. A study earlier this year aimed to chart how humans interact with AI at work, depending on how the agents are designed and presented. That included asking participants to work with two human-like AI assistants, one presenting as male and one as female, then judging them on trustworthiness, the quality of their work, and how much they deserve to be paid. In a troubling mirror to the real-world gender pay gap, both men and women said that the...