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 • 47 episodes

Women talkin' 'bout AI

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The Everything Machine and the Trillion-Dollar Bet

What if the story we're being told about AI's inevitability is hiding something underneath? In this episode, Jessica and Kimberly sit down with George Kamide, anthropologist, community bu...

April 29, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 17 • 1:00:09

It's About Power not Sex: AI-Generated Deepfake Porn and the Fight for Accountability

Episode SummaryIn this episode, Kimberly and Jessica dig into the rising crisis of AI-generated deepfake non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), and why it's not really a technology story. It's a power story. From a class action l...

April 22, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 16 • 46:30

AI Took the Doubt Out of the Writing. That's the Problem.

Kimberly Becker joins George and George on the Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks podcast to talk about what our research is revealing about the language AI produces and what it means for the rest of us. Topics Covered...

April 15, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 15 • 38:10

Depth is the Human Edge

Jessica and Kimberly just had a paper accepted for publication in Frontiers in Education. So today, they're sharing what they've learned.The big idea is that AI is not a neutral tool. It's a cultural intermediary. Just like a hu...

April 08, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 14 • 57:50

Leading When You Can't Know What's Real: AI, Uncertainty, and the Limits of Expertise

Jessica and Kimberly sit down with Rebecca Bultsma, an AI ethics researcher completing her dissertation in Data and AI Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, keynote speaker, and Chief ...

April 01, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 13 • 1:09:58

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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.