BiasMedium
Gender Biases in Google Translate
- Occurred
- Apr 13, 2017
- Published
- Sep 17, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Cornell University study in 2016 highlighted Google Translate's pattern of assigning gender to occupations in a way showing an implicit gender bias against women.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Women
- Women and girls
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Study reveals gender bias in translation output, representing notable controversy without immediate physical harm or legal action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8