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 • 63 episodes

Women talkin' 'bout AI

Latest Episodes

How Are AI and Chatbots Changing Truth, Trust, and Public Discourse?

Jessica Parker returns to the show (ha!) for a conversation about Screen People by Atlantic staff writer Megan Garber. The book examines how American life has reorganized itself around screens, and what happens when we can no longer re...

August 12, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 31 • 1:06:16

What Language Assessment Can Teach Us About AI Resume Screening (Part 2 with Roz Hirch)

Part two of two with Roz Hirsch.Roz has been applying for jobs and not getting interviews she would once have gotten easily. She's been rejected in under an hour. She's been rejected at midnight, by companies where nobody was awake to re...

August 05, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 31 • 42:18

What Happens When You Ask AI and Humans the Same Question (Part 1 with Roz Hirch)

Kimberly's friend Roz Hirch is the guest on this two-part series. Roz is a linguist, a college instructor in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and a language assessment specialist. She is also out of work for the summer for the first time in her life. Kim...

August 05, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 30 • 58:11

Women Talkin' 'Bout Friction

Devon Cantwell-Chavez studies global urban climate change governance. She and Kimberly met because of an antagonistic LinkedIn post (not between the two of them), and then discovered that, in many wa...

July 29, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 29 • 1:12:58

It's Not X, It's Y: Why AI Chatbots Pick Weird Favorite Phrases

This week, Kimberly and Jessica dig into the AI writing tic everyone's noticed and nobody can fully explain: "it's not X, it's Y." They discuss The Atlantic's new piece on the phrase, then bring Kimberly's informal research from a publ...

July 22, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 28 • 40:28

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Fan Mail

Great discussion. Thank you so much. So many important points. But I did want to come back to the whole Save Act, especially since you're discussing patriarchy. They don't want to just stop women voting. They want to stop women working, earning their own money, having any autonomy or freedom. This is just such a big issue. I don't know why I know about it more in Australia than you guys know about it in the US, but maybe that's by design. I think it's great that you guys are talking about AI and how to be cautious because that's definitely something that I have been so, so, so aware of as well as I go into it. I think this is a really serious discussion and an important discussion to share, and I'll definitely be sharing it. Thanks so much.