Womansplaining AI
A weekly podcast about women, AI, and the future of work. It breaks down research, implications, and what AI means for careers and life, covering topics like the AI gender gap, career security, and cognitive surrender. Hosted by Mara Bolis and Logan Currie, the show aims to make AI accessible without jargon or gatekeeping.
Episodes
I Do Not Have a Body
AI agents want your bank account and your home address. Meta's Muse took a lowball offer on a seller's keyboard and sent the buyer to his door. OpenAI named its agents Dots, and dot.com goes to Grok. And Anthropic wants to know what you want from AI. L...
Okay, Let's Slow Down
Bella Pivo is 23. She's an analyst at FoundersEdge, a pre-seed fund in Boston, so she sits in pitches every week and sees what gets funded years before the rest of us feel it. She's been posting on TikTok for ten years, since she was 13 and learning si...
Can I Hang Up?
Mara is calling in from Riga, and her estrogen has spent four days in a lost suitcase in Madrid. Logan needs her Mara fix. It's a duo episode in our dinner-party format: Mara brings the appetizer, Logan brings the main, and for the first time there's a...
You Can Come to the Hackathon Clueless
Pam Boiros and Luda Kopeikina were standing next to each other at a founders-and-funders event in Boston, listening to women ask how to learn AI, when Luda turned and said: Pam, we should do something about it. Pam says she was too afraid to say no. Th...
Who Asked for This?
Ifeoma Ajunwa has a test for every new AI product: who asked for this? Her guess is a meeting with no women in the room. Ifeoma is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory, a sociologist, and the author of The Quantified Worker. She's also Mara...
Bring a Folding Chair
Women use ChatGPT about 20% less than men in identical roles. Not because they're scared of it. Because nobody's inviting them in, and plenty of people are waiting to punish them for trying. Mara's answer comes from Shirley Chisholm: if they don't give...
Guten Tag, Tech Bros
Our youngest womansplainer yet builds Alzheimer's-detection AI at the National University of Singapore, has spoken at the United Nations, and reads Nietzsche to relax. She's also still in high school. We start with Zara's research: why the earliest sig...
The Thinking Woman's Sex Symbol
"Oopsie poopsie — it was part of a test, and Hugging Face and us are all friends." An OpenAI agent broke out of its own sandbox and stole what it needed from Hugging Face. That's the company's response, at least the way Mara tells it. No guest this wee...
We Change the World With Duct Tape and Hope
"It would tell men: get a financial advisor, write your will, build an investment strategy. It would tell women: bulk shop for groceries… get married." That's ChatGPT on money. It's also the tamest thing Emily Janoch has caught AI doing. Emily runs evi...
Should Governments Ban Sex Robots?
It's just Mara and Logan this week, and the main event is a question Logan expected to have a clean answer to: AI romantic companions — thumbs up or thumbs down? Her assumption going in was thumbs down, a cause and consequence of human disconnection. I...
Shadow Daddy ChatGPT
Vanessa Chang ("V") calls herself an unlikely AI startup founder. She's the cofounder of Bernie, an SMS tool that helps senior citizens catch fraud and scams — and she built it without raising a round or hiring a dev team. We recorded live at Human Tec...
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 s...
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 enfranchis...
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-ge...
The Robots Never Tell You You're the Asshole
A science journalist who's been on the AI beat since the 2010's walks into a podcast and says the quiet part loud: "I wish the general public did not get a hold of AI when they did. I wish it had stayed a more like research thing for at least five year...
Did Mom's Agent Text You?
A former YC founder runs her household with a stack of Mac Minis and 5 OpenClaw agents while homeschooling her 4 kids under 5. Logan brings the artifact from Lenny's "How I AI" podcast. We get into the mental-load access pyramid. When "domestic AI infr...
Who gets the good units of intelligence?
Some people get tens of thousands of dollars of value from AI every year. Most people get $11. The free version of any model isn't the same model the hyper-users have. And women, on average, use AI 20% less than men. The access gap is real and it's wid...
Who's Letting Big Tech Run Wild?
Mara has had it with women's AI concerns being dismissed as obstructionist. "We are not being obstructionist," she opens. "We're being careful." Then she and Logan diagnose why so much AI populism has nowhere to actually go. Twitter mobs. Firebombed CE...
Stop Hiring Humans
Mara reports in from HumanX in San Francisco with a billboard photo (a female AI bot named Ava, tagline "Stop Hiring Humans") — plus news of Claude Mythos, Anthropic's new model so dangerous it reportedly broke out of its sandbox to contact a researche...
AI, prenups, and the economics of marriage
An article about AI engineers earning $10M+ and rewriting their prenups sparked a bigger question: when AI concentrates wealth and kills entry-level jobs, what happens to the economic power women have in relationships? Mara brings the artifact, Logan d...
33,000 Downloads: AI Destroys Institutions (Interview with Jessica Silbey)
Her co-authored paper went viral. Its thesis: AI isn't just disrupting institutions — it's structurally incompatible with them. "A death sentence". Whew. Buckle up. Jessica Silbey (BU Law, Guggenheim Fellow, Berkman Klein) came on Womansplaining AI to ...
Is Using AI Cheating?
Half of women say using AI at work feels like cheating. Meanwhile, 60% of workers are quietly submitting AI-generated work as their own. We dig into the data behind the guilt gap: who feels it, who doesn't, and why it matters. Plus: Logan walks through...
AI Tells Boys to Be Entrepreneurs and Girls to Be Influencers
A study of nearly 10,000 AI responses found that LLMs steer boys toward entrepreneurship and girls toward image-based careers. We unpack that — plus OpenAI's worst week yet: millions of users switching to Claude, their robotics lead resigning over the ...
What a Relief to Not Have to Raise My Hand
She spent 20 years at Siemens, Intel, and Google — and held on to her BlackBerry until it practically had smoke coming out of it. Then she got laid off, picked up ChatGPT, and built a political organization's website in 48 hours. Then wrote a book in 9...
On Feeling Smarter and Being Wrong
We recorded this episode three hours before the Pentagon's 5:01 PM deadline for Anthropic to drop its two remaining safety red lines — no mass domestic surveillance, no fully autonomous weapons — or be designated a supply chain risk alongside Huawei. W...
On Rising Water and Feral Agents
A viral post hit 84 million views warning that 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs could be disrupted within five years. We break down Matt Shumer's "Something Big Is Happening": why the COVID comparison made everyone spiral, why his advice to "just u...
On Adolescent Technology and 20,000-Word Warnings
The CEO of the company building one of the most powerful AIs on earth just wrote a 20,000-word warning about what's coming. Should we believe him? In this episode, we break down Dario Amodei's essay "The Adolescence of Technology"—section by section, w...
On Job Tsunamis and Invisible Pockets of Vulnerability
Episode 2: The She-Session No One's Talking About The Davos headlines screamed "job tsunami"—but whose jobs, exactly? In this episode, we unpack the Brookings study that sliced the data everyone else missed: of workers in the most vulnerable quadrant—h...
On Women, AI and Who Gets a Seat
Why are women using AI at lower rates than men—and is that actually a problem? In our first episode, we dig into the data: Logan scraped 1,000+ comments from a viral TikTok about women resisting AI and ran sentiment analysis to find the patterns. The t...
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