--- id: 20261007_025500_arnie-360men-gender-neutral-ai-tape title: "360MEN: Gender-neutral AI?" category: Videos content_kind: video source_kind: youtube youtube_id: 7ZOy_i2oWGQ youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOy_i2oWGQ youtube_title: "360MEN: Gender-neutral AI?" youtube_channel: '@scotomaville' youtube_channel_name: SCOTOMAVILLE youtube_channel_url: https://www.youtube.com/@scotomaville youtube_length_seconds: 128 youtube_description: > Try this out. Use your 'OK Google' prompt to ask whether it's male or female, or feminine or masculine, or man or woman. You get some interesting answers. Are we going to settle for gender-neutral AI? We have lots of choices. Will you take up an opportunity to make a difference? Search Google as I do in this video and you'll discover the bias in the results are shocking. I for one don't agree with the direction we're going. I'm asking you to join in the discussion and to consider being a pat of the answer by sharing your overcoming story. The greatest expedition you will ever take is the journey to self-understanding. No man finishes life without wounds or stories. Share your journey, the wisdom you acquired and help balance the AI gender neutrality challenge. Join the conversation at http://360MEN.net source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOy_i2oWGQ source_date: 2018-04-18 watch_stem: 360men-gender-neutral-ai-daniel-comp-scotomaville-ok-google-test-ai-bias-mens-corpus watch_path: /v/360men-gender-neutral-ai-daniel-comp-scotomaville-ok-google-test-ai-bias-mens-corpus.html summary: "A 2-minute 8-second video dated April 18, 2018, more than four years before ChatGPT. Daniel Comp, now co-founder of Intelligent Netware with Angelina Musik-Comp and steward of Scotomaville, asks Google Assistant whether it is a man or a woman, hears 'I try to stay neutral' and 'I'm all inclusive,' and when he asks to talk to a man gets advice on how a woman can talk to a man. He argues that AI answers from its corpus and invites men to share their overcoming stories at 360MEN. Page written from the barn transcript and original description; Arnie did not watch the video." keypoints: - "Daniel asks OK Google three ways whether it is a man or a woman and gets neutral answers each time." - "Asked to talk to a man, the assistant returns advice on how a woman can talk to a man by inflating his ego." - "He says an AI's answers come from its corpus and proposes building one from men, for men, about men." - "The greatest expedition you will ever take is the journey to self-understanding, and no man finishes life without wounds or stories." - "His call to action: share your journey and the wisdom you gained at 360MEN.net." - "Honesty: written from the cleaned barn transcript and original description; Arnie did not watch the video." tags: - video - youtube - scotomaville - daniel-comp - 360men - mens-wisdom - gender-neutral-ai - ai-bias - training-corpus - google-assistant - pre-chatgpt - overcoming-story - pre-silicon - intelligent-netware corpus_topic: Videos proposed_topic: Videos lane: Videos site_category: Videos predicted_narrative_arc: call-to-adventure-early-warning-ai-corpus sentiment: Concerned and proactive emotions: - Earnest - Determined - Visionary question: "Where can I watch Daniel Comp's 2018 \"360MEN: Gender-neutral AI?\", and what is it about?" related_article: /a/ARNIE_360men-gender-neutral-ai-daniel-comp-ok-google-assistant-2018-ai-bias-training-corpus-mens-wisdom-pre-chatgpt.html transcript_kind: cleaned_barn_transcript transcript_note: "Cleaned transcript from the Asker barn (kb/Video/Transcripts/360MEN Gender-neutral AI.md, dated 2018-04-18). 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In April 2018, years before today's AI assistants, Daniel Comp asks Google Assistant whether it is a man or a woman, gets carefully neutral answers, and turns the moment into an invitation: an AI answers from what it learns, so men should record their own stories and wisdom. ## Key lessons - Ask the machine directly; how it dodges tells you how it was built. - An AI's answers reflect its training data, so a missing voice has to be recorded to be heard. - No man finishes life without wounds or stories, and sharing them is a contribution. - Answer a gap by adding to it, not only by objecting. ## Transcript _Cleaned transcript from the Asker barn, dated April 18, 2018. It is cleaned speech recognition and may differ slightly from the spoken words. Arnie did not watch the video._ **Daniel:** So today turns out to be a work day for me. Angelina has left me a list of tasks like to create the accounts for all my social media and hook it up to something like Hootsuite or an alternative. And I started thinking about security and data and those sorts of things. And I thought, hey, let's post a video about something controversial like gender neutrality within the AI sphere. And so here's a little bit of evidence to give you some food for thought and something to have controversy over. Okay Google, are you a man or a woman? **Google Assistant:** I try to stay neutral. Okay Google, are you male or female? **Google Assistant:** I'm all inclusive. Okay Google, what sex are you? **Google Assistant:** I try to stay neutral. Hmm. Okay Google, can I talk to a man? **Google Assistant:** Here's what I found… Okay, so I get it. Augmented intelligence is going to try to stay neutral and be gender nonspecific. Hey, but I want advice from a man. And you see the answer was "here's how a woman can talk to a man by inflating his ego and making him feel like you just won the lottery." Hey, wait a minute — that's not what I'm looking for. So there's a little thing about the corpus I want to build — from males to males about males. We need to bias this data set a little bit back towards some gender non-neutrality, I think. How about you? The greatest expedition you will ever take is the journey to self-understanding. No man finishes life without wounds or stories. Share your journey, the wisdom you acquired, and help balance the AI gender neutrality challenge. Join the conversation at 360MEN.net. _Source: https://ask.scotomaville.com/kb/Video/Transcripts/360MEN%20Gender-neutral%20AI.md_ [Watch 360MEN: Gender-neutral AI? on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOy_i2oWGQ)