A Japanese academic journal has drawn criticism for putting a broom-wielding female robot on its cover, it seems. The illustration appears on the front of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence journal, and was submitted as part of a competition, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reports, external. It was created by a female artist to show how artificial intelligence could affect our daily liv
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