One news outlet chose the image below to illustrate an article about a study that investigated whether people reacted differently to robots depending on whether they were black or white: There is, unfortunately, no shortage of examples of this phenomenon. Looking at this tweet from Pelican Books, it's obviously questionable whether a robot holding a book on a silver platter is the best way to illustrate a book that claims to be a ‘mythbusting guide to AI.’ Even ignoring that decision, however, we still have to ask why the robot needs to be sexualised: why does it have ‘breasts’? Why does it have a smirk and a ‘seductive’ gaze? And, moreover, why does the promotional material for a book about AI need to picture it being presented on a silver platter by a female servant? One of the most common ways that pictures of robots are awful is through absurd sexualisation of the robots and perpetuation of gender stereotypes:
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