Fearful of bias, Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool

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Google’s technology will not suggest gender-based pronouns because the risk is too high that its 'Smart Compose' technology might predict someone’s sex or gender identity incorrectly and offend users, product leaders revealed to Reuters in interviews.

 

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