This is Draft 4.5. Taking into account recent feedback, the title was changed to reference Amazon Alexa. The description was also changed to integrate a reference to the "smash the patriarchy" meme, and removes some extraneous information. The first option now comes in two flavors: one for nations with AI citizenship, and one for nations without, and was altered to incorporate a new effect line referencing a somewhat famous commercial. Further, the adjective "god-given" was removed from the capitalist flavor of the second option, with the second option's effect line also changed, and the third option's speaker is a sexist secretary, rather than the leader's grandfather. Finally, smart quotes and apostrophes were replaced with straight quotes.
TITLE:
Hey Alexis, Are You Sexist?
VALIDITY:
Has the Internet, computers, and high scientific advancement
DESCRIPTION:
A study from the @@NAME@@ Institute of Technology claims that the usage of voice assistants, due to a combination of their servility and the fact they are typically feminine, reinforce gender bias. Arguments are being raised, and things smashed, over the study's validity and potential implications.
OPTION 1 – AI PERSONHOOD
"Are you really going to let this systemic misogyny continue, @@LEADER@@?", snaps @@RANDOMFEMALENAME_1@@, author of the study in question and proud feminist. "This study is just one of many to prove that voice assistants being female by convention renders even egalitarian users somewhat sexist. Therefore, the solution here is to let our digital citizens' diversity flourish by mandating that they are the gender, or lack thereof, they identify as."
OUTCOME:
women have never ordered more bath oil
OPTION 1 – NO AI PERSONHOOD
"Are you really going to let this systemic misogyny continue, @@LEADER@@?", snaps @@RANDOMFEMALENAME_1@@, author of the study in question and proud feminist. "This study is just one of many to prove that voice assistants being female by convention renders even egalitarian users somewhat sexist. Therefore, the solution here is to increase their diversity by mandating that half of them are male by default."
OUTCOME:
women have never ordered more bath oil
OPTION 2 -- CAPITALISM
"I don't see what the problem is here," interjects Mosfet Gatez, president of a leading @@DEMONYM@@ tech company. "I was simply fulfilling the nation's male… I mean myriad of citizens' desires! They want voice assistants to be submissive and feminine, and who am I to deny them their right to enjoy my software? Further, according to our market research, openness to trying voice assistants is correlated with openness about one's own biases, likely inflating the study's measure of users' prejudice. Simply ignore the feminists' pseudoscientific nonsense, @@LEADER@@, and let the market work its magic! Besides, I created a male version, too, though nobody seems to use it..."
OUTCOME:
@@NAME@@'s sexiest women have suddenly gained a reputation for problems with accents
OPTION 2 -- NO CAPITALISM
"I don't see what the problem is here," interjects Mosfet Gatez, Minister of the People's Technology. "We were simply fulfilling the nation's male… I mean myriad of citizens' desires! They want voice assistants to be submissive and feminine, and who are we to deny them their state-given right to enjoy our software? Further, according to our psychological research, openness to trying voice assistants is correlated with openness about one's own biases, likely inflating the study's measure of users' prejudice. Simply ignore the feminists' pseudoscientific nonsense, @@LEADER@@, and keep the people happy! Besides, we created a male version, too, though nobody seems to use it…"
OUTCOME:
@@NAME@@'s sexiest women have suddenly gained a reputation for problems with accents
OPTION 3
You hear a grumbling voice. "Why bother with these newfangled voice assistants?" asks your Luddite secretary, while attempting to hide a whip. "After all, we could just turn real women into our domestic…uhh... helpers! Send us back to the good old days by banning these soulless robots, and bring civility back to @@NAME@@!"
OUTCOME:
librarians are quitting in droves to become housewives