Long before AI existed, the world treated the male body as the default. Crash test dummies were built on it, which is part of why a woman wearing a seatbelt is more likely to be seriously injured in a car crash than a man. Medical research was built around it too.
Now we are building AI, and AI learns from the world as it already is.
In this episode Grace looks at what happens when a technology that learns from existing data is trained on a world that has consistently under-researched and overlooked women.