Womansplaining AI

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  Guten Tag, Tech Bros 14.08.2026 47min

  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...
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  The Thinking Woman's Sex Symbol 05.08.2026 46min

  "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...
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  We Change the World With Duct Tape and Hope 28.07.2026 47min

  "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...
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  Should Governments Ban Sex Robots? 18.07.2026 55min

  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...
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  Shadow Daddy ChatGPT 08.07.2026 27min

  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...
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  The Pope Has Entered the Chat 26.06.2026 58min

  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...
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  Is AI Just Spicy Autocorrect? 18.06.2026 32min

  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...
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  Move Fast and Break Rights 12.06.2026 23min

  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...
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  The Robots Never Tell You You're the Asshole 27.05.2026 51min

  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...
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  Did Mom's Agent Text You? 20.05.2026 52min

  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...
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  Who gets the good units of intelligence? 13.05.2026 48min

  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...
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  Who's Letting Big Tech Run Wild? 07.05.2026 31min

  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...
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  Stop Hiring Humans 22.04.2026 59min

  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...
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  AI, prenups, and the economics of marriage 14.04.2026 52min

  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...
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  33,000 Downloads: AI Destroys Institutions (Interview with Jessica Silbey) 03.04.2026 1h

  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 ...
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  Is Using AI Cheating? 25.03.2026 49min

  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...
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  AI Tells Boys to Be Entrepreneurs and Girls to Be Influencers 18.03.2026 47min

  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 ...
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  What a Relief to Not Have to Raise My Hand 12.03.2026 49min

  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...
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  On Feeling Smarter and Being Wrong 05.03.2026 1h 1min

  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...
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  On Rising Water and Feral Agents 25.02.2026 54min

  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...