Source: in-cyprus.philenews.com
Artificial intelligence has made up its mind about women. Kitchen. Nursery. Nothing more.
That’s not hyperbole, it’s what a 2024 UNESCO study found after picking apart 133 AI systems. Nearly half, 44%, showed clear gender bias, slotting women into domestic roles four times more often than men. Feed the machine a woman’s name and it reaches for “family” and “children”. Feed it a man’s name and out comes “career” and “salary”.
UNESCO’s findings are far from an isolated case. A 2024 study found AI models score a CV more favourably when a man’s name sits at the top of it, same qualifications, same experience, better odds if you’re male.
This isn’t new. Back in 2019, Apple Card’s algorithm handed out higher credit limits to men than women, even when the women had identical or stronger credit histories.
Then in 2018, MIT and Stanford looked at facial recognition and found the error rates told their own story: the software’s worst failures fell on women of colour, its best results reserved for white men.
Amazon hit the same wall in 2015. Its AI recruitment tool, trained overwhelmingly on men’s CVs, simply learned to prefer men. The machine didn’t invent the bias. It absorbed it, then acted on it.
Research from the LSE in 2025 found that AI tools used by the majority of English councils were systematically playing down women’s physical and mental health problems compared to men’s. The health of half the population, quietly marked “less serious” by an algorithm.
The list keeps growing. Artificial intelligence doesn’t invent sexism, it inherits it, then feeds it straight back to us, dressed up as objectivity. It is not about the fine print.
AI is woven into daily life, it’s the right hand of the younger generation. It’s the whisper in their ear, giving them advice, shaping how they see the world. That whisper is poisoning them with the same old ideas that fuel violence against women. Ideas that hand abusers and killers of women another weapon to work with.