AI Agents Successfully Recreate the Gender Pay Gap

We can replace human workers with AI agents, but we can’t take sexism out of the workplace. A recently published study from researchers at Ireland’s University of Limerick found that existing conscious and unconscious gender biases extend to AI agents, resulting in female-presenting bots getting paid less than their male-presenting counterparts.

The study took 189 knowledge workers and placed them in a virtual reality office where they were made to work alongside three different AI agents to complete tasks. Those…