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Front. Artif. Intell.
Sec. Natural Language Processing
Volume 8 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frai.2025.1545607
Can Chatbots Teach Us How to Behave? Examining Assumptions About User Interactions with AI Assistants and Their Social Implications
Provisionally accepted- 1Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
- 2and Univ Gustave Eiffel, LaPEA, F-92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Université Paris Cité, Paris, Île-de-France, France
- 3Strane Innovation, Gif-sur-Yvette, Île-de-France, France
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In this article we examine the issue of AI assistants, and the way they respond to insults and sexually explicit requests. Public concern over these responses, particularly because AI assistant are usually femalevoiced, prompted tech companies to make them more assertive. Researchers have explored whether these female-voiced AI assistants could encourage abusive behaviour and reinforce societal sexism. However, the extent and nature of the problem are unclear due to a lack of data on user interactions. By combining psychological and socio-cultural perspectives, we problematize these assumptions and outline a number of research questions for leveraging AI assistants to promote gender inclusivity more effectively.
Keywords: AI assistants, Gender inclusivity, Human-AI interaction, intentionality, harassment and abuse, gender bias
Received: 15 Dec 2024; Accepted: 21 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Lima and Morisseau. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Tiffany Morisseau, and Univ Gustave Eiffel, LaPEA, F-92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Université Paris Cité, Paris, 75270, Île-de-France, France
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