15 Amendments of Silvia MODIG related to 2020/2216(INI)
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Highlights that AI, especially AI- applications, can significantly reshape our images of gender and AI-designers modify AI-systems based on their own human perception and world of experience; highlights that the lack of diversity in the digital and AI sector can cause the lack of gender diversity also in the development and marketing of the digital services and AI-applications;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Expresses concern that AI- applications, gaming industry and digital sound assistants are still mostly targeted to male consumers promoting heteronormative images of gender and the marketing often repeats and promotes conscious and unconscious gender biases and sexist images of women and girls and stereotypical images of minorities;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Expresses concern that digital voice assistants are mainly programmed as young women and that digital voice assistants have been shown to respond to messages comparable to sexual harassment often positively and that the programmed responses of voice assistants to sexual harassment repeats a sexist image of women;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Highlights that it is essential in the functioning of the digital single market and improving the use of AI that using digital services and AI-applications are safe also for women, girls and minorities; highlights that cyber violence and harassment remains a huge concern for consumers of online digital services and AI-applications, especially for women, girls and minorities;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6 e. Calls for the responsibility of the Commission, the Member States and the online digital service and AI industry to further develop safe spaces and to add possibilities to report online harassment for consumers when using their services and applications; Calls for binding legislative measures to combat cyber violence and to support Member States in the development of training tools for Digital services and AI developing industry;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6 f. Stresses the need for training for employers, workers and teachers in digital and AI-sectors to identify and correct gender-discriminatory practices in the workplace and in education, and training for employers, workers and teachers to identify and eliminate gender biases and sexism in the products and services they develop;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6 g. Highlights that achieving gender equality in the digital single market and in the use of AI for European consumers needs to be understand as a structural challenge in the society, that challenge can be tackled only by strong public policies and by binding legislation to compact discrimination based on gender and based on belonging to a minority group;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 h (new)
Paragraph 6 h (new)
6 h. Calls on the Commission and Member States to support research aimed to identify and eliminate the causes of responses of digital voice assistants that underestimate the sexual harassment towards them and to end the practice of making digital voice assistants women by default and to encourage the development of gender-neutral voice assistants;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 i (new)
Paragraph 6 i (new)
6 i. Highlights that during the Covid- 19 period people coming from the most vulnerable groups had been submitted to a double pressure due to the lack of access to digital services and been put in an even more precarious situation; stresses that the impact of teleworking on women and workers in general needs to be evaluated notably regarding working hours, lack of collective bargaining, isolation, separation between work and private life and psychological pressure;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 j (new)
Paragraph 6 j (new)
6 j. Highlights that new digital services and AI technology based consumer products have abled new possibilities to work from home and that working from home has put pressure on workers to work more flexible, have expanded working time beyond working hours and made difficult to separate work and private live; therefore stresses the workers’ rights to be disconnected to be respected;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 k (new)
Paragraph 6 k (new)
6 k. Considers essential for the achievement of gender equality in the development, production, marketing and in the use of digital services and AI consumer products, applications and online-platforms to build a comprehensive education in schools and workplaces to recognize and eliminate gender biases in own behaviour and work;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 l (new)
Paragraph 6 l (new)
6 l. Calls on Commission and the Member states to implement gender mainstreaming and develop indicators to measure the development of gender equality in all stages of work in the Digital services and AI industry to improve the use of digital services and AI for European consumers;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 m (new)
Paragraph 6 m (new)
6 m. Calls on the Commission and the Member states to recognize the online harassment towards sole entrepreneur that are women and to take action to tackle this issue;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 n (new)
Paragraph 6 n (new)
6 n. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that digital single market supply chains are based on fair trade and ensure gender equality; Calls on the Commission and the Member state to ensure enough resources to achieve this goal;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 o (new)
Paragraph 6 o (new)
6 o. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to push forward binding legislation to make digital services and AI applications accessible and affordable to all, to improve operational life of digital and AI products and to make repairing of the digital and AI products accessible and affordable to all despite of their social background;