Editing Gynoid (section)

== Criticisms ==
Critics have commented on the problematic nature of [[Female gendering of AI technologies|assigning a gender]] to an artificial object with no consciousness of its own, based purely on its appearance or sound.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lewis|first=Tanya|date=20 February 2015|title=Rise of the Fembots: Why Artificial Intelligence Is Often Female|url=https://www.livescience.com/49882-why-robots-female.html|access-date=2020-12-11|website=LiveScience|language=en}}</ref> It has also been argued that innovations should part from this essentialising notion of a woman and focus on the purpose of creating robots, without making them explicitly male or female.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zuin|first=Lidia|date=2017-07-01|title=A brief history of men who build female robots|url=https://medium.com/startup-grind/a-brief-history-of-men-who-build-female-robots-fde981db8104|access-date=2020-12-11|website=Medium|language=en}}</ref> Very few robots are explicitly assigned the male gender, contributing to the [[male as norm|male default]] narrative.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Perez|first=Caroline Criado|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKZYDwAAQBAJ|title=Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men|date=2019-03-07|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4735-4829-9|language=en}}</ref> Critics have also noticed how the creation of gynoids is associated with service roles, while androids or systems with male voices are employed in positions of leadership.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hern|first=Alex|date=2019-03-04|title=Adios, Alexa: why must our robot assistants be female?|url=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2019/mar/04/adios-alexa-why-must-our-robot-assistants-be-female|access-date=2020-12-11|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>