What we've learned from the women behind the AI revolution

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The AI boom, love it or find it to be a bit more hype than substance, is here to stay. That means lots of companies are raising oodles of dollars, a healthy dose of regulatory concern, academic work, and corporate jockeying. For startups, it means a huge opportunity to bring new technology to bear on a host of industries that could use a bit of polish. But if you read the news, you might notice that men are the far and away most cited, and discussed players in AI today. So, TechCrunch’s Dominic-Madori Davis and Kyle Wiggers decided to go out and talk to women working in AI to learn more about their work, how they got into the world of artificial intelligence, and more. The series has been running for some time now, so it was the perfect moment to get the pair of them onto the show for a chat about the project. Thus far they have interviewed folks like Irene Solaiman, head of global policy at Hugging Face, Sarah Kreps, professor of government at Cornell, and Heidy Khlaaf, safety engineering director at Trail of Bits. See you bright and early Monday morning for more! Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast and posts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. You can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. For the full interview transcript, for those who prefer reading over listening, read on, or check out our full archive of episodes over at Simplecast. Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.6	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.
0:19.6	My name is Alex and this is our interview show where we sit down with a guest or in this case
0:23.8	guests think about their work and then unpack the rest. Today we are keeping it in
0:28.2	house and we have Tech Ranch senior reporters Dominic Madori Davis and Kyle Wigger is here.
0:33.6	They are writing a long-running and soon to be even longer running interview series with
0:37.7	women in AI.
0:39.3	We are absolutely loving their reporting so far, learning quite a lot, so we brought them on the show so we can learn even more as a group.
0:45.4	Dom, Kyle, welcome to the show.
0:47.4	Yeah, thanks for having us.
0:48.6	Dom has been here before, Kyle has been here before, you're both Equity Veterans, but Kyle, I I have a story for you I'm glad you're back because I was recently asked by someone who works in let's call it the technology communications world if you are a real person or a robot and I'm very glad we can do kind of a proof of life here that you are actually a person. So welcome back.
1:07.6	Thanks. Glad to be back. Yeah, it's a weird liveness check, but whatever works for people to prove I am human, indeed.
1:14.8	Wish I was a robot, you know, be more productive, but here we are.
1:19.0	I feel like that's more of a comment about where we are in capitalism than anything else, but let's put that aside and move along.
1:26.1	So I want to go back in time a little bit because I've been watching you guys put out this series now for
1:30.7	what it feels like months.
1:32.0	I'm just kind of curious what was the
1:33.2	Genesis and how long did you take to spin up talking to all these women in the world
1:37.4	of AI, Tom? Okay so it was obviously because of the New York Times publishing
1:41.4	some AI series and they listed like a bunch of
1:45.1	guys and no women and I'm trying to remember how it started either I flagged it to
1:50.4	Kyle or like we were just talking about it and it was kind of like isn't it crazy that the New York Times is doing this massive series on AI and they're going back to just Elon and Larry Page and Sam as if those three guys invented AI and AI just started three years ago?
2:06.1	I was like, that's actually crazy.
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