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People Paid Male AI Agent More For The Same Work, Study Finds

A new study found that people were willing to pay a male-presenting AI agent more than an identical female-presenting one for completing the same work. The finding suggests gender bias extends beyond human workers into how people value AI agents, raising questions about automated hiring, pricing and the design of AI assistants. Commenters flagged it as evidence that human biases transfer to machine interactions.

Why now: The counterintuitive finding that gender bias applies even to AI agents has sparked debate about bias in human-AI interactions.

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