Women Talkin' 'Bout AI

About Women Talkin' 'Bout AI

Two women examining AI through a lens of power, not just capability. Why deepfakes target women. How bias gets baked in. What tech companies aren't saying. Kimberly brings corpus linguistics; Jessica brings strategy. Both bring skepticism, feminism, research expertise, and a refusal to take the hype at face value. Subscribe to our channel if you’re also interested in understanding AI behind the headlines.

Publisher

Kimberly Becker & Jessica Parker

Category

education · society & culture · technology

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

6 Oct 2024

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

67 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Go Rogue? Plus, Meghan O’Gieblyn’s God, Human, Animal, Machine

   Kimberly and Jessica reunite after a summer apart to finish a conversation they shelved in July: Meghan O’Gieblyn’s God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning. Read against this summer’s AI news, the book lands harder than it did in 2021. O’Gieblyn shows how the metaphors we use for machines (learning, neural networks, uploading the mind to the cloud) carry theological structures inside them. Jessica pulls out the warning underneath: once we take a metaphor ...

2. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Revisited: Enshittification, AI, and the Middleman

   Show notes We’re revisiting our earlier conversation about Cory Doctorow’s concept of enshittification—the process by which digital platforms begin by serving users, then shift toward serving business customers, and eventually extract value from everyone involved. When we first recorded this episode, Doctorow’s new book about AI had not yet been published. It is out now: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence — Before It’s Too Late. We’ll be d...

3. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Who’s Responsible for AI Harm? Deepfakes, Scams, Big Tech & Congress with Allyson Kapin

   AI-generated deepfakes are getting easier to create, harder to detect, and increasingly being used to target women and children. So who is responsible for stopping the harm: Big Tech, Congress, or the rest of us? In this episode of Women Talkin’ ’Bout AI, Kimberly Becker talks with Allyson Kapin, founder of Women Who Tech, co-founder of the W Fund, and founder of RAD Campaign, about AI deepfakes, nonconsensual intimate imagery, misinformation, online scams, tech regulation, and political powe...

Who has been a guest on Women Talkin' 'Bout AI

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Clara Hawking
• Jessica Parker
• Megan Garber
• Roz Hirsch
• Roz Hirch

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

103,532

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100

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Quality

69

Social presence

91

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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