Google is removing gender pronouns from the predictive text feature found in its Gmail platform. The feature will no longer suggest pronouns that indicate a specific gender such as'he', 'her', 'him' or'she' for fear of suggesting the wrong one and causing offence. Google staff have revealed the technology will not suggest gender-based pronouns because the risk is too high that its'Smart Compose' technology might predict someone's sex or gender identity incorrectly. The California-based firm's Smart Compose feature is found in Gmail which has 1.5 billion users around the world. Gmail product manager Paul Lambert said a company research scientist discovered the problem in January.