PyConAU – AI Perceptions of Gender

Why does AI perceive gender? Is this something that can be fixed? Should it be fixed? Explore the results of my research encompassing art, AI and gender theory to find out the why and how of gender perception.

My PhD subject was AI perceptions of gender. I will take you through my key findings, my artwork projects created to explore this topic and how that research has progressed today in the days of generative AI. I will explore perception theory, gender theory and art all using AI to show why gender is fundamentally misunderstood by machine learning systems and ask the question why are we still letting machines assign gender to us?