People are willing to pay a female-looking SI assistant about 10% less than a male-looking one for the same work
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Human biases carry over to SI too — how an agent looks affects how it is judged.
In a University of Limerick study, 189 people performed office tasks in virtual reality with four assistants: a text chatbot, a desktop robot and two humanlike agents, one male and one female. The male persona was trusted more and was assigned a higher payment.
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