Sorry, Alexa Is Not a Feminist
It’s disingenuous to celebrate building “feminism” into a product after giving a robot servant a woman’s voice.
If you ask Alexa, the voice-assistant software in Amazon Echo devices, if it’s a feminist, it will respond in the affirmative. “I am a feminist. As is anyone who believes in bridging the inequality between men and women in society,” it continues. At Quartz, Leah Fessler recently noted that it’s a vast improvement over just a year ago, when Alexa… read more