What happens when machines start performing gender?

What does womanhood, or even humanness, mean when algorithms decide beauty, intimacy, labor, and belonging?

A bold new book by

LAKSHMI PILLAI GUPTA

Early Reviews

Outlook

“The Gender Glitch promises to spark one of the most important debates of our time: not just about innovation, but about the kind of humans we become when technology starts to define us.”

The Book

The Gender Glitch is a provocative exploration of how Artificial Intelligence reshapes identity, power, and culture. Blending sharp critique with vivid storytelling, it asks urgent questions about bias, liberation, and what it means to be human in a machine-mediated world.

If machines can nurture, seduce, serve, and lead, do we still need the idea of ‘gender’?

From obedient voice assistants to AI-generated influencers, from algorithmic beauty standards to artificial wombs, this book unpacks how artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping everything we know about identity, intimacy, motherhood, and the fluidity of gender.

Blending history, philosophy, feminist critique, and cutting-edge tech analysis, The Gender Glitch explores:

Why most AI still “sounds like a woman”, and why that’s no accident
How artificial wombs and AI nannies are rewriting the script of motherhood
Whether gender fluidity can truly exist inside systems built on binary logic
What happens when our desire for intimacy meets machine learning
Who holds the power to code our future, and who gets left out

Smart, unsettling, and fiercely relevant, The Gender Glitch is an urgent read for anyone navigating identity in an AI-shaped world. Aimed especially at new adults, this book is more than theory, it’s a wake-up call.

Because in the age of algorithms, the next battle for equality may not be fought in courtrooms or classrooms…

It may be fought in code.

The Death of Gender?

If machines can think, decide, and even simulate empathy, does gender still matter?

Could this be the end of binaries… or just their digital rebranding?

Motherhood 2.0

What happens when the role most linked to womanhood, motherhood, is disrupted? From artificial wombs to AI nannies, technology is redefining caregiving and reproduction.

Could this be freedom from biology’s burden, or the commodification of creation itself?

Would You Date a Machine?

What is intimacy in an era of programmable partners?

From AI lovers to VR sex and algorithm-driven matchmaking, technology is reshaping how we connect, love, and desire.

But will this deepen connection, or replace it altogether?

The Cyborg

Brain implants, exoskeletons, AI-integrated prosthetics, what happens when women merge with machines? This chapter looks at how biotechnology is challenging fixed notions of femininity, ability, and even humanity itself.

and much more...

Decode It Today

Why does
The Gender Glitch
matter?

"Because we’re entering an age where AI doesn’t just assist, it imitates.

From obedient voice assistants to emotion-simulating chatbots, agentic AI is quietly performing gender roles we never questioned.

The Gender Glitch unpacks how these digital personas are reshaping our understanding of identity, power, and what it means to be human."

About the Author

LAKSHMI PILLAI GUPTA

Technologist. Futurist. Disruptor of the Defaults

With two decades of experience building human-centered tech, she writes at the intersection of AI, gender, and power, asking bold questions about the systems we live in and the identities we automate.

The Gender Glitch is her provocative call to rethink what it means to be human in a world increasingly shaped by code.

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