{"id":131407,"date":"2024-06-12T07:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T04:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/women-participate-more-in-meeting-with-an-ai-female-teammate-research-shows\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T07:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T04:40:53","slug":"women-participate-more-in-meeting-with-an-ai-female-teammate-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/women-participate-more-in-meeting-with-an-ai-female-teammate-research-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Women participate more in meeting with an AI female teammate, research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131407\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nWomen participate more in meetings and share more ideas when they are paired up with a female-sounding AI agent, new research shows. An AI teammate with a female voice boots women\u2019s participation and productivity at work, according to a new study. Researchers at Cornell University in the US assigned 180 men and women to groups of three and asked them to collaborate virtually on tasks.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth teammate which was an AI agent with either a male or female voice, spoke to them and gave them instructions. Participants then became either a minority or majority member of the team based on gender. Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, a postdoctoral associate in information science and the lead author of the study, was feeding lines generated by ChatGPT into the bot that the participants saw. \u201cHiring a new person to fill out a team in real-time isn\u2019t realistic,\u201d Hwang said in a statement. \u201cOur thought was: What if we had on-demand AI agents that can participate and hopefully change team dynamics in a good way?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Embracing AI could save employees about 390 hours of working time per year, UK study shows<br \/>\nAll the teams had two tasks: one brainstorming session on conservation ideas and another where they had to review profiles for a job opening and decide who to promote. The chatlogs of the team conversations were analysed to see how often each person offered ideas or arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The participants in the study also filled out two post-task surveys to rate the level of support offered, the experience on the team and whether they felt marginalised either by a group member or the bot. Hwang found women in the minority of a particular group participated more when the AI\u2019s voice was female and they reported more positive feelings towards the AI teammate when in the majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen tended to be pretty quiet when they were the only female members\u2026but when there was a same-gender agent on the team, they contributed a lot more ideas in team discussions,\u201d Hwang said. When men were in the minority with a male-sounding bot, they were more talkative but less focused on the tasks, the study continued.<\/p>\n<p>How do you get ahead in an AI-dominated jobs market? These skills are what you need to master<br \/>\n\u201cWith only a gendered voice, the AI agent can provide a small degree of support to women minority members in a group,\u201d Hwang said. \u201cWe often feel more at ease, and thus work better on teams with people who are like us\u201d. Hwang said their research opens up questions for further studies into how workplaces can support workers with a long history of being marginalised through the creation of AI agents.<\/p>\n<p>The study only touches on the \u201ctip of the iceberg\u201d with how gender is perceived by people in the workplace, Hwang continued, and future research could consider looking into how performance is changed when those that do not identify as male or female.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/06\/11\/women-participate-more-in-meeting-with-an-ai-female-teammate-research-shows\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/women-participate-more-in-meeting-with-an-ai-female-teammate-research-shows\/\">Women participate more in meeting with an AI female teammate, research shows<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[14873,555,568],"class_list":["post-131407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai-female-teammate","tag-csr-news-en","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}