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Does the gender pay gap extend to AI? Research finds female AI agents 'paid' less

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Serving as workplace assistants that receive monetary rewards based on visual appearance

In a virtual reality experiment, workers paid a female-presenting AI agent 10.25 percent less money than an identical male-presenting agent. The findings show researchers that human workplace biases transfer directly to interactions with artificial collaborators.

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Workers stated that assistant gender had no effect on their choices, yet they awarded less money to the female avatar.

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