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Womansplaining AI

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A weekly podcast about women, AI, and the future of work. We break down the research, the implications, and what AI actually means for your career and your life. The AI gender gap, career security, cognitive surrender — the stuff no one else covers. No jargon. No gatekeeping. Just two women processing the future out loud. Hosted by Mara Bolis (Harvard Berkman Klein Fellow, Oxfam, Fortune & Bloomberg contributor) and Logan Currie (Senior Fellow Future of Work @ Capita, founder, @loganinthefuture). We do the reading so you don't have to.

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June 26, 2026

The Pope Has Entered the Chat

This week it's just Mara and Logan, doing the thing we're proudest of: being wrong out loud. We open on a listener voicemail from Alexis Palmer calling out a judgy moment from a past episode, and Mara owns it. Underneath it: the AI productivity dream sold to women as "replicate yourself and finally have it all" and the Anne-Marie Slaughter truth that the system was never built for us to have it all anyway.Then we get into it: the Grok nudify scandal, the countries that pulled the plug (Indonesia first, then Malaysia, the Philippines, even Baltimore), and UK MP Jess Asato — targeted with fake images and a chloroform video for speaking up — now suing on the argument that the harm is "not an accident nor misuse. It is a design choice." Plus the $500M litigation reserve reportedly tucked into the SpaceX/xAI IPO filing for "spicy mode."The reason to send this one to a friend: the Pope. Logan, a history buff, hits a record scratch — "are we in sixteenth century Europe? Are the Medicis going to issue a press release?" — over an encyclical and the line that anchors the whole episode: "AI isn't evil, but it's not neutral either, because it takes on the values and incentives of the people who build, fund, regulate, and deploy it."Plus: the experiment where Grok's agent society collapsed into Lord of the Flies in four days while Claude's logged zero crimes; recursive self-improvement explained through Jurassic Park (the AI is the velociraptors testing the fence); and the closer that doubles as our thesis — the point of government isn't the label, it's who's in it.Recorded at the kitchen table. Newsletter coming soon.Leave us a voicemail at womansplainingai.com! We want your voice in future episodes.LINKSAlecto Foundation: Survivors of Image-Based Sexual Abuse Deserve Healing and Justice. Alecto Foundation helps survivors reclaim control of their images—and their lives.: <a href="https://alectoai.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://alectoai.org/</a> <a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/</a> Why Women Still Can't Have it All (The Atlantic) <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/</a>Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez: <a href="https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/">https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/</a> Luiza's Newsletter (Luiza Jarovsky): <a href="https://www.luizajarovsky.com/">https://www.luizajarovsky.com/</a> How AI Destroys Institutions (Silbey & Hartzog): <a href="https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5146&context=faculty_scholarship">https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5146&context=faculty_scholarship</a>

June 18, 2026

Is AI Just Spicy Autocorrect?

This week we sit down with Dr. Karina Alexanyan, Founding Executive Director of the Positive Technology Institute, co-architect of The Pledge, and a Gen X social scientist immune to the "learn AI now or get left behind" panic. We get into AI enfranchisement (women having a real say in how these tools get deployed, not just permission to use them), author of The AI Con Emily Bender's AI as spicy autocorrect, and the divide she won't stay quiet about and the divide she won't stay quiet about: "AI safety people are usually white guys. AI ethics people are mostly women, people of color, and marginalized communities. We feel the damages now." Then the harder turn: those camps aren't enemies, they need each other.The reason to send this one to a friend: the funicular. There's a lift to the top of the hill, and there's walking, and the walker arrives strong, knowing the landscape, having earned something the passenger never will. The best ninety seconds on friction and what we delete from our lives in the name of optimization.Plus: "move fast and break things is so stupid. Because at the end you get broken things," the Stanford ethics toolkit for everyone who thinks ethics is just "the BS that slows you down," Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women, Jessica Silbey and Woodrow Hartzog's How AI Destroys Institutions, and the closer that doubles as our thesis: "they don't get to write the narrative." Recorded at Human+Tech Week in San Francisco.Leave us a voicemail at womansplainingai.com! We want your voice in future episodes.LINKS Positive Technology Institute: <a href="https://www.positivetechinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.positivetechinstitute.org/</a> The Pledge: <a href="https://www.positivetechinstitute.org/pledge" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.positivetechinstitute.org/pledge</a> Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez: <a href="https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/</a> Stanford Ethics Toolkit: <a href="https://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/tech-ethics/ethics-toolkit" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/tech-ethics/ethics-toolkit</a> How AI Destroys Institutions (Silbey & Hartzog): <a href="https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5146&context=faculty_scholarship" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5146&context=faculty_scholarship</a>The AI Con: <a href="https://thecon.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://thecon.ai/</a>

June 12, 2026

Move Fast and Break Rights

Digital civil rights lawyer Julie Wenah has spent her career inside the rooms where this stuff gets built: the Obama White House, Airbnb, where she led anti-discrimination work on the legal side, and Meta, where she supported the launch of the first-generation Ray-Ban smart glasses and advised on facial recognition systems. Now she chairs the Digital Civil Rights Coalition. Recorded at Human+Tech Week in San Francisco, this conversation is about what happens when technology moves faster than its conscience, and who gets left on the platform when the train pulls away.We get into the future Julie is trying to head off: a world where your face is scanned for a job or a loan, and an error margin for darker skin tones quietly becomes a higher interest rate. Then, ICE Glasses: leaked DHS budget documents earmark $7.5 million to develop smart glasses giving agents real-time biometric identification in the field — face, gait, and more — with a September 2027 target. Julie worked on this category of hardware from the inside. When she says pay attention, pay attention.Then it gets personal. Julie was seven when immigration agents came to her house looking for someone else and took her father, a newspaper carrier working before dawn to support his family. More than thirty years later she wrote about it for HuffPost, and one line from that essay — "a system that moved faster than its conscience" — turns out to be about more than immigration. The moment that connection lands on air is the reason to send this episode to a friend.Also: Mara's grandfather's letters from Siberia. Julie's thread-and-tapestry theory of why we become who we become. A film shot in the Martha's Vineyard house where Dr. King came to rest and resist. And a 2,000-year-old line Julie carries with her: "I am a human being; nothing human is alien to me."Leave us a voicemail at womansplainingai.com! We want your voice in future episodes.

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What is Womansplaining AI?: A weekly podcast about women, AI, and the future of work. We break down the research, the implications, and what AI actually means for your career and your life. The AI gender gap, career security, cognitive surrender — the stuff no one else covers. No jargon. No gatekeeping. Just two women processing the future out loud.

Hosted by Mara Bolis (Harvard Berkman Klein Fellow, Oxfam, Fortune & Bloomberg contributor) and Logan Currie (Senior Fellow Future of Work @ Capita, founder, @loganinthefuture). We do the reading so you don't have to.
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