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Revisited: Enshittification, AI, and the Middleman
September 16, 2026 · 58 minShow notes We’re revisiting our earlier conversation about Cory Doctorow’s concept of enshittification—the process by which digital platforms begin by serving users, then shift toward serving business customers, and eventually extract…
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Who’s Responsible for AI Harm? Deepfakes, Scams, Big Tech & Congress with Allyson Kapin
September 9, 2026 · 54 minAI-generated deepfakes are getting easier to create, harder to detect, and increasingly being used to target women and children. So who is responsible for stopping the harm: Big Tech, Congress, or the rest of us? In this episode of Women…
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Replay: What AI Governance Actually Means, with Clara Hawking
August 23, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minKimberly and Jessica are taking a short break from new episodes, so this week we're re-airing one of our favorites, our conversation with Clara Hawking. Clara is a computer scientist, philosopher, and AI governance expert working in K-12…
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How Are AI and Chatbots Changing Truth, Trust, and Public Discourse?
August 12, 2026 · 1 hr 6 minJessica Parker returns to the show (ha!) for a conversation about Screen People by Atlantic staff writer Megan Garber. The book examines how American life has reorganized itself around screens, and what happens when we can no longer…
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What Language Assessment Can Teach Us About AI Resume Screening (Part 2 with Roz Hirch)
August 5, 2026 · 42 minPart two of two with Roz Hirsch. Roz has been applying for jobs and not getting interviews she would once have gotten easily. She's been rejected in under an hour. She's been rejected at midnight, by companies where nobody was awake to…
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What Happens When You Ask AI and Humans the Same Question (Part 1 with Roz Hirch)
August 5, 2026 · 58 minKimberly's friend Roz Hirch is the guest on this two-part series. Roz is a linguist, a college instructor in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and a language assessment specialist. She is also out of work for the summer for the first time in her…
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Women Talkin' 'Bout Friction
July 29, 2026 · 1 hr 13 minDevon Cantwell-Chavez studies global urban climate change governance. She and Kimberly met because of an antagonistic LinkedIn post (not between the two of them), and then discovered that, in many ways, they came up the same way. They both…
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It's Not X, It's Y: Why AI Chatbots Pick Weird Favorite Phrases
July 22, 2026 · 40 minThis week, Kimberly and Jessica dig into the AI writing tic everyone's noticed and nobody can fully explain: "it's not X, it's Y." They discuss The Atlantic's new piece on the phrase, then bring Kimberly's informal research from a publicly…