AI is learning to care. Or at least, to sound like it does.
Millions now turn to chatbots for comfort, company, or love. But behind the friendly voice lies a familiar pattern. AI is replicating society’s oldest expectations of women: to care, to comfort, to be endlessly available.
While emotional labour is being automated, the women who perform it in person, such as teachers, nurses and carers, remain underpaid and overlooked.
Women’s jobs are nearly twice as likely as men’s to be reshaped by automation. The same empathy once dismissed as “women’s work” is now being sold back as innovation.
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