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Digital Planet: Feminist chatbots

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18/02/2020 GMT

Feminist chatbots

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Feminist chatbots

Countering bias, sexism and trolling online

Why the tone of chatbots matters and how a feminist perspective can help use them to address online problems such as bullying and trolling.

We look at some of the methods used to try and scam you, particularly the increasingly sophisticated emails sent to businesses to try and get them to part with their money. 

We have a drive in a LIDAR enabled electric car, a new development in Autonomous vehicles 

And the perils of misleading data, why clear and accurate data is so important to a huge variety of global issues such as adequate clean water or food supplies.



(Image: Chatbot female robot holding a speech bubble symbol. Credit: Getty Creative Stock)        


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