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UN Women’s A.I. Hub Would Push a One-Sided Gender Agenda
October 21, 2026 – The United Nations agency for women, UN Women, has launched a hub to shape how artificial intelligence (A.I.) is built and governed. (1) The hub aims to benefit women and girls through A.I. technology. (1)
That female focus ignores the United Nations Charter, whose Preamble promises “equal rights of men and women.” (2) It repeats the pattern the International Council for Men and Boys (ICMB) found across 12 areas of United Nations policy: male disadvantage left unaddressed. (3)
The hub’s misleading key statistic, that 44% of “133 AI systems” show gender bias, comes from a 2021 tally at the University of California, Berkeley. (1)(4) That tally counted only systems already reported as biased, some from 1988. (5) It measured neither today’s A.I. nor bias against men.
Tests of today’s A.I. in both directions find bias against men:
- Hiring:Asked to choose between equally qualified men and women, all 22 A.I. models tested favored women, choosing them 56.9% of the time. (6)
- Violence:GPT-4 judged it more appropriate to abuse a man than a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. (7)
Chatbots carry a separate danger: Character.AI filed for bankruptcy on October 12 after lawsuits over teen suicides and self-harm. (8) The first came from the mother of Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old boy. (9) Boys face the greater risk: U.S. boys and young men aged 15 to 24 die by suicide at over three times the rate of girls and young women. (10)
None of this appears in the hub’s announcement, which never mentions boys. (1) Yet UN Women’s lead on digital technologies, Jayathma Wickramanayake, has said A.I. bias is a choice made “in policy documents that stay silent on half of the population.” (11)
At a minimum, ICMB asks UN Women to:
- Test A.I. for bias against both sexes.
- Count the A.I. harms that fall on boys.
- Correct its misleading account of the 133-system study.
The International Council for Men and Boys consists of over 100 organizations around the world that are working to end the 12 sex disparities that affect men and boys worldwide. https://www.menandboys.net/
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Links:
- https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2026/09/un-women-launches-the-digital-innovation-and-ai-hub-dedicated-exclusively-to-gender-equality
- https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/preamble
- https://www.menandboys.net/pr/reports-reveal-the-un-gender-agenda-as-one-sided-ideological-and-indefensible/
- https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/artificial-intelligence-and-gender-equality
- https://ssir.org/articles/entry/when_good_algorithms_go_sexist_why_and_how_to_advance_ai_gender_equity
- https://peerj.com/articles/cs-3628
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2024.100533
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/character-ai-files-bankruptcy-disney-license/
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-settle-lawsuit-florida-teens-suicide-character-ai-chatbot/
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db572.htm
- https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167776
