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Should an algorithm try to guess what gender people are by how they look? all_is_magic/Shutterstock.com

Gender is personal – not computational

Foad Hamidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Morgan Scheuerman, University of Colorado Boulder, and Stacy Branham, University of California, Irvine

It can be unpleasant to be mistaken for someone of a different gender. When an algorithm does it secretly, it’s even more concerning – especially for transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

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