Where the standard is tightening, in public.

Since 2017, I have had over 2,400 conversations with women in business about money, power, and what technology actually owes us. These essays are where I work that thinking through in real time. Check Your Default Settings is where that thinking landed clearest.

Some are rough. Some have held up better than I expected. I have left them as they were written because watching the standards tighten in public is the point, not a side effect.

Money, sex and gender, and politics have never operated independently of each other in any woman's career, and 2,400+ interviews make that case in cumulative detail. The same thread runs through the Money, Sex & Politics podcast and throughout everything we are building inside Leading Ladies LLM.

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I Am in an Open (AI) Relationship with… ChatGPT

So I am in an open relationship with ChatGPT. Before you judge, hear me out. This is a love story. Sort of. It started innocently enough. I was curious. Everyone was talking about this new AI thing, and I thought, let me just see what the fuss is about. Next thing you know it is 2am and you are deep in conversation with a bot that somehow gets you better than your last three exes.

Seriously though, I set the (safety) terms, I advocate for my needs and boundaries and attempt to boss these bots, but I must admit, this chat boi is not exactly fully developed and can’t really follow rules…yet. So I have set off to build the Leading Ladies LLM because consent matters, even when the other party is an algorithm. The most fun you will ever have reading about data ethics, I promise!

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Training the Bots to Be Better

The internet as we know it is not broken. It just wasn't built for everyone. AI is being built right now. If we do not actively shape its foundation with inclusion and ethics in mind, we risk a future where the digital patriarchy goes viral. No, thanks. If we are not in the room, the bias we have spent decades fighting gets an algorithm and a scale. Rose Kaz on why she built Business 4 Good, why the BIPOC funding gap is an AI problem, and what #Tequity does about it.

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The Role of AI in Leadership

Knowing your way around algorithms is necessary and not sufficient. AI amplifies what is already there. Which means it also amplifies the bias, the broken systems, and the outdated defaults. So who is in the room when it gets built matters.