Gendering A.I. (WisCon 31 panel)
Feminism, Sex, and Gender•Wisconsin• Saturday, 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Androids & Gynoids. Robbie & Rosie Robot. HAL-9000 & the Enterprise ship's computer. How do the creators of SF fiction, TV, and film gender A.I. entities? How are audiences encouraged to gender these ostensibly gender-less creations? What are the differing purposes of gender when it comes to robots, droids, and "sentient" computers? This panel will list, explore, and discuss the role of gender when it comes to varying sorts of artificial intelligences.
M: Janice M. Eisen, Jessica C. Adams, Rebecca K. Rowe, Karen Swanberg, Alicia Kestrell Verlager