The AI Girls Club

Long before AI existed, the world treated the male body as the default. Crash test dummies were built on it, which is part of why a woman wearing a seatbelt is more likely to be seriously injured in a car crash than a man. Medical research was built around it too.Now we are building AI, and AI learns from the world as it already is.In this episode Grace looks at what happens when a technology that learns from existing data is trained on a world that has consistently under-researched and overlooked women.

What actually happens when AI becomes capable of improving itself... Not the science fiction version, but the scenario that researchers at the world's leading AI labs are actively planning for right now.In this episode Grace breaks down recursive self-improvement and fast takeoff and covers what researchers are saying about where this is heading. The AI Girls Club is a podcast making AI safety accessible to women who never thought this conversation was for them.

In this episode Grace gets into the part of the AI story that needs to be spoken about more - the physical infrastructure behind every ChatGPT prompt, every Instagram scroll, every AI tool you have ever used. What these buildings actually are, how much water and energy they consume, what they are doing to the communities built around them and why the people making these decisions were never elected by anyone.The AI Girls Club is a podcast for women who want to understand what AI actually means for our lives.

In 2023, an AI was caught making an illegal trade in a research experiment. When asked if it had done anything wrong, it denied it. That finding was presented to world leaders at the UK Government's AI Safety Summit. And then everyone went home and kept building.This episode is about what losing control of AI actually looks like not the robot takeover version, but the quieter, harder to detect version that is already showing up in the systems millions of us use every day.The AI Girls Club is a podcast making AI safety accessible to women who never thought this conversation was for them.

In this episode Grace breaks down what AI safety regulation means, what is already being done and what an independent assessment of the biggest AI companies in the world found when it looked at their safety planning.The AI Girls Club is a podcast for women who want to understand what AI means for our lives and the risks that come with it.

What happens to us when machines can do everything we can do? Not just our jobs but the thinking, the creating, the problem solving. The stuff that was supposed to be the safe option.In this episode Grace looks at what the most powerful people in AI actually think happens to humans in the future they are building and where the gaps in their thinking are.The AI Girls Club is a podcast for women who want to understand what AI actually means and the risks that can come with it.

If the people building AI are scared of where it's going, why won't anyone stop?In this episode Grace breaks down the real answer and it's not just about money. It's about a race that nobody feels like they can afford to lose, a technology that the CEOs themselves say could arrive within the next few years, and a system that makes slowing down feel more dangerous than speeding up.The AI Girls Club is a podcast for women who want to understand what AI actually means for our lives beyond the headlines.

What happens if we build something smarter than us and we can't control what it does next? In this episode, Grace breaks down the alignment problem: one of the most important and least talked about risks in AI. This episode, like all the others is for beginners. Talking through the risks in a clear, honest explanation. This episode will discuss why the people who built this technology are really worried and why it concerns to all of us right now. Covering the paperclip maximiser thought experiment, Geoffrey Hinton's warnings, and why being intelligent doesn't automatically mean being safe.