091: How Women Can Take Their Power Back From AI with Mara Bolis

Most women I know feel a quiet unease about AI, and it turns out that unease might be the smartest thing about them. I sit down with Mara Bolis, founder of First Prompt and a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, to talk about her framework called fierce ambivalence, the idea that women's hesitation toward AI is risk awareness, not risk aversion. We get into why women feel behind or even guilty for using these tools, what the real story is behind AI's water and energy use, and why staying on the sidelines means handing the future over to a small group of decision makers who do not represent us. Mara also shares practical ways to start using AI with agency, from turning on privacy settings to using it as a thought partner grounded in your own domain expertise. This conversation left me thinking differently about my own relationship with these tools, and I think it will do the same for you. Pull up a chair, because this is a conversation every woman in business needs to hear. Links referenced in this episode: - www.firstprompt.net - Womansplaining AI : We talked about the episode called Move Fast and Break Rights: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/womansplaining-ai/id1877678348