Girl, AI Is Not Unstoppable

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

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News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A lot of conversations about AI are either sales pitches (“the efficiency!”) or horror stories (“the extinction!”). This week, Bridget Todd, technologist and host of There Are No Girls on the Internet, joins us for something better—an informed, 100% human discussion of what it will take to make AI work for us, and whether there’s still time to do that. (Yes, but move fast.) She, host Brittany Packnett Cunningham, and group-chat regular Dr. David Johns break it down in a wide-ranging conversation: Together, they unpack the rise of AI-generated Black identities, nude deepfakes, the risks to child safety, and what to do about “girlboss AI.” It’s an episode that challenges us to think critically about the systems shaping our lives…because nothing about this future is inevitable. Follow Brittany: https://www.instagram.com/MsPackyetti https://www.tiktok.com/@mspackyetti https://www.youtube.com/@MsPackyetti https://www.threads.com/@mspackyetti Episode website: https://www.stayundistracted.com To subscribe to The Meteor: https://www.wearethemeteor.com/newsletters https://collective.media

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0:00.0	I don't necessarily feel like we need to frame it as a feminist win to get women involved in AI.
0:06.0	Reese Witherspoon, not just a few years earlier, she was literally tweeting,
0:10.0	oh, women need to get involved in crypto and NFTs, or they will be left behind.
0:15.0	Crypto and NFTs are the future.
0:17.0	Well, we see how that played out. I don't actually know that that was the case.
0:20.0	Hey y'all. Well, we see how that played out. I don't actually know that that was the case.
0:25.0	Hey, y'all. I know you're like another room.
0:27.1	Yes, another room, another studio, another city.
0:30.9	But this time with a Webby, I wish I had the physical Webby here.
0:34.7	I could just slide it on in to the shot and it would have been perfect, but they have to mail
0:40.1	those to us.
0:40.9	Still, Cindy Levy, my co-EP and I went to the Webby Awards last Monday and we were so thrilled
0:47.4	to accept the Webby for Best Belonging and Inclusion Podcast because of all of you.
0:53.3	So I'm just feeling so deeply grateful.
0:56.2	I'm thankful to all of you who share the podcast,
0:59.0	who wrote reviews,
1:00.2	who've been down with us for four seasons now.
1:02.8	And even though we didn't win the people's vote award,
1:05.0	the people who voted for us,
1:06.3	we are grateful to you because listen,
1:08.9	we need all kinds of energy at the ballot box right now.
1:12.1	I don't know if you were there in Montgomery and Selma on Saturday.
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