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Conversational agents enhance women's contribution in online debates
The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fostering the development of innovative methods of communication and collaboration. Integrating AI into Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is now ushering in an era of social progress that has the potential to empower marginalized groups....
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10477209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37666917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41703-3 |
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author | Hadfi, Rafik Okuhara, Shun Haqbeen, Jawad Sahab, Sofia Ohnuma, Susumu Ito, Takayuki |
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description | The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fostering the development of innovative methods of communication and collaboration. Integrating AI into Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is now ushering in an era of social progress that has the potential to empower marginalized groups. This transformation paves the way to a digital inclusion that could qualitatively empower the online presence of women, particularly in conservative and male-dominated regions. To explore this possibility, we investigated the effect of integrating conversational agents into online debates encompassing 240 Afghans discussing the fall of Kabul in August 2021. We found that the agent leads to quantitative differences in how both genders contribute to the debate by raising issues, presenting ideas, and articulating arguments. We also found increased ideation and reduced inhibition for both genders, particularly females, when interacting exclusively with other females or the agent. The enabling character of the conversational agent reveals an apparatus that could empower women and increase their agency on online platforms. |
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spelling | pubmed-104772092023-09-06 Conversational agents enhance women's contribution in online debates Hadfi, Rafik Okuhara, Shun Haqbeen, Jawad Sahab, Sofia Ohnuma, Susumu Ito, Takayuki Sci Rep Article The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fostering the development of innovative methods of communication and collaboration. Integrating AI into Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is now ushering in an era of social progress that has the potential to empower marginalized groups. This transformation paves the way to a digital inclusion that could qualitatively empower the online presence of women, particularly in conservative and male-dominated regions. To explore this possibility, we investigated the effect of integrating conversational agents into online debates encompassing 240 Afghans discussing the fall of Kabul in August 2021. We found that the agent leads to quantitative differences in how both genders contribute to the debate by raising issues, presenting ideas, and articulating arguments. We also found increased ideation and reduced inhibition for both genders, particularly females, when interacting exclusively with other females or the agent. The enabling character of the conversational agent reveals an apparatus that could empower women and increase their agency on online platforms. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10477209/ /pubmed/37666917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41703-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Hadfi, Rafik Okuhara, Shun Haqbeen, Jawad Sahab, Sofia Ohnuma, Susumu Ito, Takayuki Conversational agents enhance women's contribution in online debates |
title | Conversational agents enhance women's contribution in online debates |
title_full | Conversational agents enhance women's contribution in online debates |
title_fullStr | Conversational agents enhance women's contribution in online debates |
title_full_unstemmed | Conversational agents enhance women's contribution in online debates |
title_short | Conversational agents enhance women's contribution in online debates |
title_sort | conversational agents enhance women's contribution in online debates |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10477209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37666917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41703-3 |
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