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Does the gender pay gap extend to AI? New research finds female AI agents ‘paid’ less
(www.eurekalert.org)
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
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We need a new study to understand why we would pay a computer program and why we gave a gender to a bunch of bits.
It's a computer, so it can't be non-binary.
Sure it can, quantumn computers aren't binary.
No they are binary. Qubits only contain 1 bit of information.
but that bit is not only 1 or 0, which means that a qubit isn't binary.
It is only a 0 or 1. A qubit has never been observed to be anything else.
True, but they have the third state of superposition giving them a total of 3 possible states; 0, 1 and both simultaneously
Superposition really is just a mathematical notation to predict how the qubits will behave. It's arguably nomological not ontological. No one has ever in history measured or detected or observed a qubit to be in this "third state." It's always found to just have a bit value of 0 or 1. The mathematical book keeping is just a way to predict that 0 or 1 and doesn't describe a third state.
Nevertheless, the definition of a qubit is that is has those three states, meaning it technically isn't binary.
There are analog computers, there were experiments with 3-stage bit computers...
dats rAIcist
It's in your blood.
Isn't the modern approach to gender that gender is a completely arbitrary characteristic? So why not? For example, in my native languages every noun has grammatical gender. So for me the idea of intellect being male and a tire being female is completely ok.