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I wonder if there are actually enough anatomical differences for it to learn? Like chicken sexing[1].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-intuition-of-p...

I'd imagine the current one already is one. That's the whole point of this article, that it is being thrown off by this technique since there's no definition for the gender.

...At which point we would get a series of think-pieces about whether the AI was implicitly misogynist.

No, we wouldn't. We might get a debate about whether programming such a feature is misogynist (which it pretty much is), but I can't exactly imagine the debate would be centered around an AI doing what it's programmed to do.

Expand your imagination, it is a predictable dynamic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial...

https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-ho...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/19/amazon-echo...

I'm not saying it isn't a valid debate, I'm saying in this instance the premise is already misogynistic before a single line of code is written, so the debate doesn't apply here.

It sounds like you don't think that is a question worth asking. Why?

Well, surely it would be explicitly misogynistic.