ChatGPT & AI

[Aegon]

It's Current Year. Names no longer suffice when it comes to assuming gender. I mean, they still do generally speaking, but you can't say that.

I’m in my early 50s and have yet to meet a woman called ‘Brian’. If this particular AI works on probabilities, the likeliest one is that ‘Brian’ is a name associated almost exclusively with people who identify as male. If it was a gender-neutral name (such as Dylan or Blake), I could see the program opting for a gender neutral pronoun.

Boru

You're thinking of gender in simpler and now-antiquated terms. Someone named Brian may be gender fluid, non-binary, etc. The way that the emerging generation of Americans perceive gender is such that a "they" pronoun is the safest bet, at all times, even if you're not AI. For better or worse that is a new cultural phenomenon.