Looking beyond the headline shows more interesting breakdowns along gender lines when it comes to AI:
Researchers found that men use AI more frequently and are, on average, better able to correctly answer factual questions about AI. But men and women answer questions incorrectly at around the same rate. The discrepancy is based on how often women said they weren’t sure of an answer—an average of 3.3 questions out of 12 compared to 2.3 questions for men.
Across a year of media coverage, men were named in headlines about AI more than 14 times as often as women. Because top AI executives skew heavily male, researchers decided to reexamine coverage, looking solely at people who were quoted as subject experts. Three-quarters of these experts were men—a higher proportion than the actual AI talent pool, which is roughly 29 percent women.
Looking beyond the headline shows more interesting breakdowns along gender lines when it comes to AI:
The Wired article that is referenced.
They make the reader do the math here, because 25% vs 29% is not statistically significant.
Curious how this was measured.
The Wired article goes into detail about the study where these numbers are pulled from.