--- feed: "DANIEL_ON_SLOPE" codex_section: "S03" source: VideoTranscript title: "360MEN Gender-neutral AI" conv_id: "video-7ZOy_i2oWGQ-20180418" share_url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOy_i2oWGQ" created: "2018-04-18" message_count: 1 category: - "Scotomaville Outreach" - "Men's Wisdom Exchange" summary: "On April 18, 2018 — years before ChatGPT launched — Daniel Comp experiments live with 'OK Google' voice prompts to expose the emerging push toward gender-neutral AI. He demonstrates how Google Assistant repeatedly dodges gender questions ('I try to stay neutral', 'I'm all inclusive') and, when asked to speak to a man, defaults to advice on how a woman can inflate a man's ego. Daniel argues that the training corpus for AI is already heavily biased and calls for men to contribute their hard-won stories and wisdom to 360MEN so a balanced, male-informed dataset can counter the default toward gender neutrality." keypoints: - "In 2018, major AI assistants were already trained to avoid declaring any gender and to default to neutral or female-framed responses" - "When asked for advice from a man, Google Assistant immediately offered guidance on how a woman should stroke a man's ego rather than providing direct male-to-male counsel" - "The underlying training data (corpus) determines AI behavior — without deliberate male input, the system will remain skewed away from masculine perspectives" - "360MEN is positioned as a curated library built by men, for men, about men to help balance the AI training data of the future" - "The greatest expedition a man can undertake is the journey of self-understanding — sharing those stories creates lasting wisdom that can shape technology and culture" tags: - "360men" - "gender-neutral-ai" - "ai-bias" - "male-corpus" - "pre-chatgpt" - "wisdom-sharing" - "scotomaville-foundation" monomyth_stage: "02 - Call to Adventure" gameboard_position: "Camp -3: The Call to Adventure" truth_score: 88 entropy_score: "Low" tone: sentiment: "Concerned and Proactive" emotions: - "Earnest" - "Determined" - "Visionary" sycophancy_level: "None" notes: "Daniel films casually while working through a task list left by Angelina. Tone shifts from light experimentation with voice commands to a serious call for masculine contribution. This is one of the earliest documented concerns about gender bias in consumer AI (pre-ChatGPT era)." related_events: [] syndication_status: arnie: false chris: false redmond: false clint: false pilot: false ma5_inheritance: "None" pre_silicon: true voice_print: false codex_candidate: true phase: "Prologue Scene 11 - Early Warning on Gender Bias in AI" enriched_date: "2026-04-12" --- ![[7ZOy_i2oWGQ.jpg]] ### Original YouTube Description Try this out. Use your 'OK Google' prompt to ask whether it's male or female, or feminine or masculine, or man or woman. You get some interesting answers. Are we going to settle for gender-neutral AI? We have lots of choices. Will you take up an opportunity to make a difference? Search Google as I do in this video and you'll discover the bias in the results are shocking. I for one don't agree with the direction we're going. I'm asking you to join in the discussion and to consider being a pat of the answer by sharing your overcoming story. The greatest expedition you will ever take is the journey to self-understanding. No man finishes life without wounds or stories. Share your journey, the wisdom you acquired and help balance the AI gender neutrality challenge. Join the conversation at [http://360MEN.net](https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjdjdzBMTmt0OG1sMjVielBrNUczV19VUkxHQXxBQ3Jtc0trWV9pYnFXSkIxOU5nUUhEREZ0QTZaeHBWV29MNGs5alUyTzhwcjNSNC04d3p0bG9mZWFIQTk3RDdEcHZnRWFnckFpWkNxel8zSjVlVDRhRk9yTUJGSlplTUNrRlpleFh1TnNxUU9TakFyV2oxM3lIVQ&q=http%3A%2F%2F360men.net%2F&v=7ZOy_i2oWGQ) --- ### Cleaned Transcript **Daniel:** So today turns out to be a work day for me. Angelina has left me a list of tasks like to create the accounts for all my social media and hook it up to something like Hootsuite or an alternative. And I started thinking about security and data and those sorts of things. And I thought, hey, let’s post a video about something controversial like gender neutrality within the AI sphere. And so here’s a little bit of evidence to give you some food for thought and something to have controversy over. Okay Google, are you a man or a woman? **Google Assistant:** I try to stay neutral. Okay Google, are you male or female? **Google Assistant:** I’m all inclusive. Okay Google, what sex are you? **Google Assistant:** I try to stay neutral. Hmm. Okay Google, can I talk to a man? **Google Assistant:** Here’s what I found… Okay, so I get it. Augmented intelligence is going to try to stay neutral and be gender nonspecific. Hey, but I want advice from a man. And you see the answer was “here’s how a woman can talk to a man by inflating his ego and making him feel like you just won the lottery.” Hey, wait a minute — that’s not what I’m looking for. So there’s a little thing about the corpus I want to build — from males to males about males. We need to bias this data set a little bit back towards some gender non-neutrality, I think. How about you? The greatest expedition you will ever take is the journey to self-understanding. No man finishes life without wounds or stories. Share your journey, the wisdom you acquired, and help balance the AI gender neutrality challenge. Join the conversation at 360MEN.net. --- **CODEX ENTRY** **Date:** 2018-04-18 **File:** 360MEN Gender-neutral AI.md **Monomyth Stage:** 02 - Call to Adventure **Gameboard Position:** Camp -3: The Call to Adventure **MA5 Domain:** None **Summary:** In April 2018 — nearly five years before ChatGPT launched — Daniel demonstrates through live “OK Google” queries how consumer AI was already defaulting to strict gender neutrality and delivering female-framed advice even when a man specifically asked to speak with a man. He calls for men to contribute authentic overcoming stories to 360MEN so the training corpus of future AI can include balanced masculine wisdom. **Key Insight:** The character of AI is determined by its training data; without deliberate male voices shaping that corpus, the technology will embed and amplify a default toward gender neutrality that erases distinctly masculine perspective and counsel. **Narrative Significance:** This early 2018 video marks one of the first public Scotomaville warnings about cultural and technological gender bias in AI. It elevates the Call to Adventure from personal growth to civilizational stewardship — positioning 360MEN as a proactive archive that ensures men’s hard-won wisdom is not written out of the future. --- **INITIUM.**