I said last time that I would show you what all of this looks like in practice. So let me start with the area where I think women have the most to lose by sitting out, and the most to gain by jumping in. Our health.
Here is what is coming, whether we participate or not. Agentic AI is going to play a real role in women's health care. The questions women ask, the patterns in their data, the articles the models learn from, the way symptoms get described, all of it becomes training material. If women are not the ones asking the questions and feeding in the context, the tools that get built will be worse at helping women. Garbage in, garbage out. Except this time the cost is our bodies.
Take perimenopause, which is finally getting talked about out loud. Every woman who uses AI to understand what is happening to her, in her own words, is teaching these systems how to be useful for the next woman. That matters. But I am not talking about typing "why am I getting hot flashes" into a chatbot and reading whatever comes back. That is not using the tool. That is barely scratching it.
Here is what using it actually looks like. Go into Claude's Cowork, or any agentic AI, and give it a real job. "I need to hit this protein target every day. Build me a week of meals around these dietary restrictions, the foods I actually like, the time I have to cook, and what I can buy at my specific grocery store, so I clear my goal without thinking about it." That is a different ask. You are not chatting. You are putting an agent to work on your actual life.
The same goes for strength training, which more women should be doing and AI can absolutely help with. Let me give you a real example. About a year ago I was traveling and staying somewhere rural, and I still wanted to train. So I took photos of the staircases, the backyard, anything heavy I could lift, and I fed them in. At the time I was only using ChatGPT, so I asked Chat to build me a gym out of what I had and a workout I could actually do with those few things. It did.
Now multiply that by agentic AI. I can stand up a personal trainer that keeps learning what I need and how I respond, that tells me what to do each day and each week, and that plans around wherever I happen to be sleeping that month. My team already knows my travel schedule, so they know whether to pack workout clothes for heat or cold, whether I am working with an indoor gym or a backyard, whether there is a boxing class nearby worth booking. The tool meets me where I am, literally.
That is the whole point. The women who learn to give AI real jobs, about their health, their training, their daily life, are the ones who will get tools that actually work for them. And they are the ones teaching these systems to work for every woman who comes after.
Next, I will get into the stranger side of all this, the genuinely weird and useful ways I have put AI to work when nobody was watching.
For those of you warming up in the comments, yes, I obviously used AI to help me write this. That's my whole point: the ideas are mine, drawn from a five-page free-flowing brain dump and from real conversations I've had with people at all ends of the AI knowledge spectrum. AI helped me organize, tighten, and get the words on the page faster than I could on my own. I have been telling you throughout this series that AI is not here to replace you, it is here to make you more efficient. This article is the proof.