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Women talkin' 'bout AI

Women talkin' 'bout AI

De: Kimberly Becker & Jessica Parker
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We’re Jessica and Kimberly – two non-computer scientists who are just as curious (and skeptical) about generative AI as you are. Each episode, we chat with people from different backgrounds to hear how they’re making sense of AI. We keep it real, skip the jargon, and and explore it with the curiosity of researchers and the openness of learners.

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  • The Containment Problem: Why AI and Synthetic Biology Can't Be Contained
    Nov 5 2025

    In this episode, Jessica teaches Kimberly about the "containment problem," a concept that explores whether we can actually control advanced technologies like AI and synthetic biology.

    Inspired by Mustafa Suleyman's book The Coming Wave, Jessica and Kimberly discuss why containment might be impossible, the democratization of powerful technologies, and the surprising world of DIY genetic engineering (yes, you can buy a frog modification kit for your garage).

    What We Cover:

    • What is the containment problem and why it matters
    • The difference between AGI, ASI, and ACI
    • Why AI is fundamentally different from nuclear weapons when it comes to containment
    • Synthetic biology: from AlphaFold to $1,099 frog gene editing kits
    • The geopolitical arms race and why profit motives complicate containment
    • How technology democratization gives individuals unprecedented power
    • Whether complete AI containment is even possible (spoiler: probably not)
    • The modern Turing test and why perception might be reality

    Books & Resources Mentioned:

    • Empire of AI by Karen Hao
    • DeepMind documentary

    Key Themes:

    • Technology inevitability vs. choice
    • The challenges of regulating rapidly evolving technologies
    • Who benefits from AI advancement?
    • The tension between innovation and safety


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  • Refusing the Drumbeat
    Oct 18 2025

    On saying no to “inevitable” AI—and what we say yes to instead.

    Kimberly and Jessica recently sat down with Melanie Dusseau and Miriam Reynoldson for an episode of Women Talkin’ ’Bout AI. We were especially looking forward to this conversation because Melanie and Miriam are our first guests who openly identify as “AI Resisters.” The timing also felt right. Both Kimberly and I have been reexamining our own stance on AI in education—how it intersects with learning, writing, and creativity—and the more distance we’ve had from running a tech company, the more critical and curious we’ve become.

    This episode digs into big, thorny questions:

    • What Melanie calls “the drumbeat of inevitability” that pressures educators to adopt AI
    • Miriam’s post-digital view of what it means to live in a world completely entangled with technology; and our shared inquiry into who actually benefits when AI tools promise to make everything faster and more efficient.
    • We also talk about data ethics, creative integrity, and the growing movement of educators saying no to automation—not out of fear, but out of care for human learning and connection.

    It’s a thoughtful, challenging, and hopeful conversation—and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

    About our guests: Melanie is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Findlay and a writer whose work spans poetry, plays, and fiction. Miriam is a Melbourne-based digital learning designer, educator, and PhD candidate at RMIT University whose research explores the value of learning in times of digital ubiquity.

    Melanie and Miriam are co-authors of the Open Letter from Educators Who Refuse the Call to Adopt GenAI in Education, which has collected over 1,000 signatures and was featured in an article by Forbes. Melanie is also the author of the essay Burn It Down, which advocates for AI resistance in the academy. We highly recommend reading both before diving into the episode.

    1. Melanie's personal website and University of Findlay profile
    2. Miriam’s personal website and blog "Care Doesn't Scale"
    3. Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
    4. Asimov’s Science Fiction
    5. Ursula K. Le Guin
    6. Ray Bradbury

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  • Hallucinations, Hype, and Hope: Rebecca Fordon on AI in Legal Research
    Oct 11 2025

    In this episode of Women Talkin’ ’Bout AI, we sit down with Rebecca Fordon — law librarian, professor, and board member of the Free Law Project — to talk about how generative AI is transforming legal research, education, and the meaning of “expertise.”

    Rebecca helps us cut through the hype and ask harder questions: What problem are we really trying to solve with AI? Why are we using certain tools, and do we even know what data they’re built on?

    We talk about:

    🔹 How AI is reshaping the practice of legal research and what it means for the next generation of lawyers.
    🔹 Why hallucinated case law and “certainty amplification” reveal deeper problems of trust and transparency.
    🔹 The tension between speed and substance, and how “saving time” can actually shift where thinking happens.
    🔹 The expert pipeline problem: what happens when AI replaces the messy, formative parts of learning?
    🔹 How law librarians (and educators everywhere) are taking on the role of translators, bridging human judgment and machine outputs.
    🔹 The open-access movement in law and how the Free Law Project is democratizing legal data.

    At its heart, this episode is about reclaiming curiosity, caution, and critical thinking in a field that depends on precision, and remembering that faster isn’t always smarter.


    Learn more:
    🔗 Free Law Project: https://free.law

    🔗 AI Law Librarians: https://ailawlibrarians.com

    🔗 Aaron Tay's musings about librarianship: https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/

    🔗 Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies: A Quickstart Guide: https://refusinggenai.wordpress.com/


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