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.

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Podcasting since 2024 • 49 episodes

Women talkin' 'bout AI

Latest Episodes

The AI Adoption Trap: Why Women's Hesitation Is Rational — and Who's Really Responsible for Fixing It

We keep being told the problem is women's hesitation around AI, that we need to adopt faster, skill up, and get in the game. But what if the hesitation is the rational response? And what if the systems telling us to move faster are the same one...

May 13, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 19 • 27:31

Quantum Computing and AI (and Who Gets to Explain Things)

In this episode, Jessica teaches Kimberly quantum computing — and we mean that literally. Starting from classical bits and working through superposition, Schrödinger's cat, the observer effect, and Google's Willow chip, Jessica build...

May 06, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 18 • 1:04:07

The Everything Machine and the Trillion-Dollar Bet

What if the story we're being told about AI's inevitability is hiding something underneath? In this episode, Jessica and Kimberly sit down with George Kamide, anthropologist, community bu...

April 29, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 17 • 1:00:09

AI-Generated Deepfake Porn and the Fight for Accountability: It's About Power not Sex

Episode SummaryIn this episode, Kimberly and Jessica dig into the rising crisis of AI-generated deepfake non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), and why it's not really a technology story. It's a power story. From a class action l...

April 22, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 16 • 46:30

AI Took the Doubt Out of the Writing. That's the Problem.

Kimberly Becker joins George and George on the Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks podcast to talk about what our research is revealing about the language AI produces and what it means for the rest of us. Topics Covered...

April 15, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 15 • 38:10

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